“Come and get your soul food”: a duo-ethnographic account of black teachers modeling the praxis of the black intellectual tradition

Abstract

In this paper, we contribute to the work in progress which outlines the contours of the praxis of Black intellectual traditions by illuminating the ways in which the pedagogy of Black teachers can serve as a model useful for the preparation of preservice and inservice teachers. Researchers have documented that the successful Black educators employ practices derived from critical perspectives that serve as the conduit for their instruction and interactions in schools. Through two different studies of Black teacher pedagogy, we position the work of Black teachers as a timely pedagogical intervention into anti-Black teaching and learning structures in k-12 education and teacher education that challenge the cultivation and enactments of liberatory visions of teaching and learning for Black children.