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Disrupting Evasion Pedagogies, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Tricia Gray
Disrupting Evasion Pedagogies, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Tricia Gray
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications
As we have researched in schools and reflected on our own teaching, we have come to recognize the lie and our untruthfulness that permeates many of our cultural scripts (Gutierrez et al., 1995) and practices as teachers. It is within these cultural scripts and practices that inequity is perpetuated and humanizing learning evaded. Thus, what we term evasion pedagogies, serve to sustain the status quo and are powerful tools to maintain oppressive projects like white supremacy, heteronormativity, gender binaries, patriarchy, ableism, classism, and linguicism. In this piece, we examine the notion of evasion pedagogies as a powerful lie in practice …