The Spirit of Our Work: Black Women Teachers (Re)Member (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780807013854)

An exploration of how engaging identity and cultural heritage can transform teaching and learning for Black women educators in the name of justice and freedom in the classroom

In The Spirit of Our Work, Dr. Cynthia Dillard centers the spiritual lives of Black women educators and their students, arguing that spirituality has guided Black people throughout the diaspora. She demonstrates how Black women teachers and teacher educators can heal, resist, and (re)member their identities in ways that are empowering for them and their students. Dillard emphasizes that any discussion of Black teachers' lives and work cannot be limited to truncated identities as enslaved persons in the Americas.

The Spirit of Our Work addresses questions that remain largely invisible in what is known about teaching and teacher education. According to Dillard, this invisibility renders the powerful approaches to Black education that are imbodied and marshaled by Black women teachers unknown and largely unavailable to inform policy, practice, and theory in education. The Spirit of Our Work highlights how the intersectional identities of Black women teachers matter in teaching and learning and how educational settings might more carefully and conscientiously curate structures of support that pay explicit and necessary attention to spirituality as a crucial consideration.

Author: Cynthia B. Dillard
ISBN-10: 0807013854
ISBN-13: 9780807013854
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2021
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2021 pg. 94