Black History Nerds Saturday school is our professional development series for pre-K-12 school teachers and others interested in learning more about Black history and race. These one-hour sessions aim to help develop Black history content pedagogical knowledge. Professional development credits are possible.
In this multivocal discussion, we unpack the concept of Pro-Blackness as it relates to education. We share key premises of Pro-Black Curriculum and Pedagogies. Listeners are invited to think with us about ways Pro-Blackness can be used to interrupt ethnocidal practices that threaten Black children’s culture and spirits. We offer guidance for implementing and sustaining Pro-Black instruction and provide examples of Pro-Black curriculum and instruction. Critiquing the relevance and utility of Eurocentric theories of Bandura, Bruner, Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, and Bloom, we emphasize that Pro-Black pedagogies must necessarily be guided by the scholarship of Black scholars.
We preview chapters in the forthcoming book on Pro-Blackness in Early Childhood Education beginning with a Pro-Black poem—Pro-Black…Yes! Listeners are engaged with Joyce King’s Foreword, In the beginning, there was Blackness. The Pro-Black team of university professors and teachers showcase examples of K–3 lessons from the Drs. Diaspora curriculum that has been used in majority Black, majority White, and racially mixed classrooms. We reflect on ways P-20 educators can extrapolate Pro-Black pedagogies, curriculum, and theories to their respective sites.
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