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Decolonizing Pedagogy: Critical Consciousness and its impact on schooling for Black students

In this thesis, I consider the ways in which classroom teachers develop critical consciousness and implement it within their pedagogy in the context of effectively teaching Black students to achieve academic success. The process of critical consciousness is complex and is mainly studied outside of teacher education. The findings of this thesis fall into three main themes: self-awareness; analysis of power; and inquiry of assumptions. The research also demonstrates that the spirituality of the teacher is an important contributing factor in one’s transformation. With this work, the hope is that teacher education programs dialogue about the importance of critical consciousness, and integrate it into the recipe that makes up “quality teaching” so that all students can have the opportunity to succeed in an equitable schooling environment.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/65533
Date24 June 2014
CreatorsBurford, Natasha
ContributorsDei, George, Portelli, John
Source SetsUniversity of Toronto
Languageen_ca
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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