Pedagogy of Survival
The Narratives of Millicent E. Brown and Josephine Boyd Bradley
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- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2016. XXVI, 214 pp.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Pedagogy of Survival
- Purpose of This Book
- The Methodology
- Chapter 1. The Desegregation of Rivers High School
- The Story
- The Groundwork
- A Turning Point
- The Trauma and Pedagogy of Survival
- The First Day
- Opposite the Front Door
- The Trauma
- Being Bullied
- Alienation
- Stress and Somatic Disturbances
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Intellect
- The Precedence for Her Pedagogy
- Buffered by Intellect
- The Teachers
- Blame, Guilt, and Responsibility
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Tragicomic
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Tiospaye
- Be Bigger
- Father
- Mother
- Sisters
- Conclusion
- Salute to Millicent Ellison Brown
- Chapter 2. The Desegregation of Greensboro (Grimsley) Senior High School
- The Story
- Dissension and Departure
- The Trauma and Pedagogy of Survival
- The First Day
- The Power of Counternarratives
- Counternarratives as Authentic Voice
- Counternarratives as Historical Contradictions
- The Trauma
- Hate and Pain
- Why Did They Do It?
- The Chosen One
- No One Ever Asked Me
- The Psychological
- The Isolation
- Pedagogy of Survival: Educational Schizophrenia
- Pedagogy of Survival: Faith, Family, and Community
- Hero Behind the Hero
- Faith and Family
- Mother and Father
- Three of the Seven
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Empathetic Practice of Peers
- Conclusion
- The Homegoing
- Salute to Josephine Ophelia Boyd Bradley
- Chapter 3. Pedagogy of Survival: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Lessons
- Pioneers Can’t Expect to Feel Normal: The Narratives of Harvey B. Gantt
- Entering through the Back Door: The Narratives of Dr. Larry Canady
- It’s Okay to Cry: The Narratives of Kristina Frazier
- Chapter 4. The Relevance
- Organic Intellectuals
- What Is an Organic Intellectual?
- Desegregation Pioneers as Organic Intellectuals
- Humility and Nonexceptionality
- Us, We, Me
- Insurgency
- Two Fronts
- The Organic Intellectual: Why Is This Concept Important?
- Implicit Bias
- What Is Implicit Bias?
- Awareness
- Priming
- Implicit Bias: Why Is This Concept Important?
- Donations
- Photos
- References
- Index
- Series Index
Chapter 3. Pedagogy of Survival: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Lessons
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PEDAGOGY OF SURVIVAL
Ordinary People with Extraordinary Lessons
Everyone has a story, an experience or experiences, successes, and failures that serve as tools for teaching and helping someone else. Your perception of success or failure, succumbing to or prevailing over an experience is not the overall point. The lessons lie in how you navigated your circumstances, your thinking behind specific actions, the factors that influenced your behavior, and your belief—or even your disbelief—that you would be able to endure. Familial, cultural, and societal factors may have influenced, helped, or even hindered you. All of these variables make up one’s lived experience. Your story, like the narratives in this book, carries with it strategies that will help or encourage others, all which serve as your pedagogy of survival.
Many of us when sharing our story truncate our experience by disclosing only its outcomes, failing to share how we journeyed through a given situation. We often negate the doubts and fears we bore at the time or the self-motivation and perseverance required to survive events in our life. In a recent parent session, my opening activity required participants to identify a person who influenced their lives, someone who helped shape who they are today. The purpose behind the activity was first to support parents in opening up during the session and second to help them think about who may be currently influencing their child’s life. The parents not only shared openly,...
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Or login to access all content.- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Pedagogy of Survival
- Purpose of This Book
- The Methodology
- Chapter 1. The Desegregation of Rivers High School
- The Story
- The Groundwork
- A Turning Point
- The Trauma and Pedagogy of Survival
- The First Day
- Opposite the Front Door
- The Trauma
- Being Bullied
- Alienation
- Stress and Somatic Disturbances
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Intellect
- The Precedence for Her Pedagogy
- Buffered by Intellect
- The Teachers
- Blame, Guilt, and Responsibility
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Tragicomic
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Tiospaye
- Be Bigger
- Father
- Mother
- Sisters
- Conclusion
- Salute to Millicent Ellison Brown
- Chapter 2. The Desegregation of Greensboro (Grimsley) Senior High School
- The Story
- Dissension and Departure
- The Trauma and Pedagogy of Survival
- The First Day
- The Power of Counternarratives
- Counternarratives as Authentic Voice
- Counternarratives as Historical Contradictions
- The Trauma
- Hate and Pain
- Why Did They Do It?
- The Chosen One
- No One Ever Asked Me
- The Psychological
- The Isolation
- Pedagogy of Survival: Educational Schizophrenia
- Pedagogy of Survival: Faith, Family, and Community
- Hero Behind the Hero
- Faith and Family
- Mother and Father
- Three of the Seven
- Pedagogy of Survival: The Empathetic Practice of Peers
- Conclusion
- The Homegoing
- Salute to Josephine Ophelia Boyd Bradley
- Chapter 3. Pedagogy of Survival: Ordinary People with Extraordinary Lessons
- Pioneers Can’t Expect to Feel Normal: The Narratives of Harvey B. Gantt
- Entering through the Back Door: The Narratives of Dr. Larry Canady
- It’s Okay to Cry: The Narratives of Kristina Frazier
- Chapter 4. The Relevance
- Organic Intellectuals
- What Is an Organic Intellectual?
- Desegregation Pioneers as Organic Intellectuals
- Humility and Nonexceptionality
- Us, We, Me
- Insurgency
- Two Fronts
- The Organic Intellectual: Why Is This Concept Important?
- Implicit Bias
- What Is Implicit Bias?
- Awareness
- Priming
- Implicit Bias: Why Is This Concept Important?
- Donations
- Photos
- References
- Index
- Series Index