Reconceptualizing Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy: A Lesson from the Other
Author(s) -
Rebeca Heringer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of contemporary issues in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1718-4770
DOI - 10.20355/jcie29426
Subject(s) - hospitality , sociology , racism , pedagogy , refugee , anti racism , social pedagogy , gender studies , law , social work , political science , tourism
Two decades after Kumashiro’s (2000) groundbreaking work, the postulates of anti-oppressive pedagogy are still in urgent need. Despite the contributions made by Kumashiro, this paper outlines how even attempts of anti-oppressive pedagogies can fall short of welcoming the Other–which can be clearly observed when focusing on Black refugee students in Canada. In the pursuit of an anti-racism pedagogy, I revisit Kumashiro’s revision of anti-oppressive tenets through the lenses of post-structural philosophy and psychoanalytical input and propose the ethics of hospitality, as articulated by Derrida (2000a, 2000b) and Ruitenberg (2016), not only as a necessary complement to that earlier work but also a pressing reconceptualization of modern education.
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