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Public Health Scholars Challenge and Critique the Field on Its Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Last summer, my colleague and I felt a sense of disappointment and desire for more from our public health education. We both started our master’s in public health Fall of 2020, right after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social uprisings of 2020 catalyzed by the racist murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd by the police. We connected over our commitment to challenging ourselves to more critically understand the intricacies of health inequities. We found ourselves frustrated with our field's approach to addressing racism in public health. For me, I felt I was not being challenged or given tools on how to meaningfully incorporate anti-racism framing into my public health endeavors. Most of the time, I felt frustrated, as were other peers who shared different or similar historically marginalized identities. For us to sit through lectures about how people like us were more prone to health issues because of the racism we endured was like, yeah, duh?

ResearchMoazzma ArshadJune 16, 2023public health, COVID-19, Racism, pedagogy

Emancipatory Pro-Black Early Literacy Research and Pedagogy Two Special Issues of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy (JECL)

To highlight the need for Pro-Black literacy pedagogy and research and to provide examples, we point you toward two special issues of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy (JECL) focused on Emancipatory Pro-Black Early Literacy Research and Pedagogy.

ResearchMaria Pia TissotFebruary 17, 2023pedagogy, pro-black literacy pedagogy, Blackness

School leaders leading curriculum inclusion: Re-culturing pedagogy, re-imagining the student experience

Curriculum diversity and inclusion are priority areas for many people working in formal and informal settings. Played out in public debates, and in organisational practices, these priorities are anchored on recent and ongoing calls to decolonise the curriculum.