Learning and Teaching While White: Antiracist Strategies for School Communities

White educators must recognize their role in supporting racist policies and practices and take responsibility for dismantling them to move toward antiracism. Learning and Teaching While White is a guide to help white educators develop an explicit, skills-based antiracist practice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

We must confront and acknowledge the concept of whiteness if we are to truly advance towards antiracism. For far too long, white educators have placed the burden of change on individuals of color, perpetuating an overwhelmingly racist school system. True racial equity cannot be achieved until white educators recognize their active participation in supporting and perpetuating racist policies and practices, and take decisive action to dismantle them.

Learning and Teaching While White is a valuable resource designed to assist white educators, leaders, students, and parents in cultivating an explicit and skills-based antiracist practice. Drawing from their extensive experiences working with school communities and the strategies and tools they have developed, Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi offer insightful guidance on how white educators can enhance their awareness of their own white racial identity, examine the role of whiteness in their school systems, reevaluate pedagogical approaches and curricular topics, address the involvement of white parents in promoting racial literacy and equity, and much more. Through their book, white educators will gain the empowerment to actively contribute to the creation of a more equitable educational system for all students.

Weight: 331g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032597119