Teaching Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy: Critical Reflections Inside and Outside the Classroom [Hardcover]

Foreword;  Acknowledgments;  Prologue;  1. July: Hiding Idols;  2.August: Pueblo Pedagogy;  3. September: Pretty Books;  4. October: Huapango;  5. November: Day of the Dead;  6. December: Tianguis;  7. January: J for Jeremy;  8. February: Everyday Pororoca;  9. March: Ides and Ideals;  10. April: Unplanned, Imperiled ;  11. May: Structure and (In)/Verse;  12. June: Spartans;  Epilogue;  Suggested Readings;  Index; 

This book outlines educational practitioner development toward decolonizing practices and pedagogies for justice-based urban classrooms. From this personal exploration, emergent and practicing teachers can extract curricula, practices, and dispositions toward advocacy for students most underserved and marginalized by public education.

Honorable Mention-2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award

Teaching Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy outlines educational practitioner development toward decolonizing practices and pedagogies for anti-racist, justice-based urban classrooms. Through rich personal narratives of one teachers critical reflections on her teaching, urban education scholarship and critical praxis are merged to provide an example of anti-racist urban schooling.

Steeped in theoretical practice, this book offers a narrative of one teachers efforts to decolonize her urban classroom, and to position it as a vehicle for racial and economic justice for marginalized and minoritized students. At once a model for deconstructing the white institutional space of US schooling and a personal account of obstacles to these efforts, Teaching Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy presents a resel“