Jarvis Givens, assistant professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, offers the term "fugitive pedagogy" to characterize African Americans' subversive traditions of teaching and learning from the slavery era through Jim Crow. Using the life of famed educator and historian Carter G. Woodson as a lens, Givens reveals an expansive world of African American teachers who cultivated dreams and aspirations in generations of students, despite a world order built on black subjection. And as he will demonstrate, much of this work took place through discreet, quiet acts of resistance. Givens insists that black educators' pedagogical traditions were essential to the Long Black Freedom Struggle and formed the roots of anti-racist teaching in the United States.
Co-Sponsored by
- Center for Innovation in Race, Teaching, & Curriculum
- The John L Warfield Center for African & African American Studies
- College of Education
- Texas Center for Equity Promotion