Seeking Race: Finding Racism

Auteurs-es

  • Towani Mahalia Duchscher University of Calgary

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40360

Mots-clés :

race, racism, curriculum, schooling, hidden curriculum, null curriculum, arts-based research

Résumé

This article explores the somatic lessons that I have learned about race and racism from participating in schooling. Using arts-based research inquiry methods of storytelling, dance and poetry, I allowed my somatic knowledge of race to surface. In analyzing this emergent knowledge, I examined how the null curriculum in schools has influenced my own understandings of both race and racism. Here, I question how maintaining the status quo in school is perpetuating fractured self identities in students, as well as a social fractal of repeated racism in society. This article explores the interconnections between race and racism and the impact of erasure on student identity. By delving into and sharing my own personal experiences of race in school, this article aims to provoke educators to consider the impact of the choices made around diversity in schools.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Towani Mahalia Duchscher, University of Calgary

Towani Duchscher is a doctoral candidate in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, specializing in Curriculum and Learning. As a poet and dancer, she is currently using the arts-based practices of dance and poetry to engage students in expressing the somatic lessons they have learned from the hidden curriculum of public schooling.

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Publié-e

2018-08-31

Comment citer

Duchscher, T. M. (2018). Seeking Race: Finding Racism. La Revue De l’association Canadienne Pour l’étude De Curriculum , 16(1), 127–142. https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40360