Children absorb their teachers’ racism through internalized pedagogies of observation
Evidence
Lortie (1975/2002) posited that PreK-12 children are apprentices of observation—observing, internalizing, and enacting the pedagogical practices of their teachers. However, Lortie undertheorized racial discrimination that can creep into teaching. Therefore, we need to interrupt such apprenticeship of observation to grow a new population who develops critical consciousness and appreciates the mosaic of racialized and other differences among us. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 244
Categorization
- XREF: Extends Lortie’s apprenticeship-of-observation concept by adding its racial transmission mechanism; connects to Anyon’s hidden curriculum work and general teacher-socialization literatures. — connects to: Racism is learned through discourse, beginning in school textbooks — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1108; Teaching uncritically maintains a status quo that harms children of color — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 614; Children’s apprenticeship-of-observation transmits teacher bias along with pedagogy (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- Children’s apprenticeship-of-observation transmits teacher bias along with pedagogy
#corroborates(1.00) - Teacher preparation gaps allow racism to reproduce through early childhood classrooms
#expands(0.85) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 243 - Children absorbed racist hierarchy by enacting it in play before understanding it
#expands(0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 455 - Standardized early childhood curricula encode a white-supremacist moral color hierarchy
#expands(0.80) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 260 - Racism is socially learned and reproduced through discourse rather than innate
#expands(0.80) - Teacher use determines whether children act on arbitrary color categories
#qualifies(0.78) - Racism is learned at school, not innate
#expands(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1108 - For colonial subjects the racial trauma occurs in childhood schooling
#exemplifies(0.78) - Minority children resist full internalization of discrimination-preparation socialization
#qualifies(0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1997 - Children’s openness to minorities is later overridden by learned societal views
#corroborates(0.74) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1980 - Reframing racism from personal sin to participatory structure shifts classroom inquiry.
#complicates(0.72) - Racism has a cognitive subsystem of shared mental models beyond visible acts
#expands(0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1054 - Racial beliefs are learned in a world not of our own making
#corroborates(0.72) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 168