ABSTRACT

A dynamic leader and visionary teacher/scholar, Joyce E. King has made important contributions to the knowledge base on preparing teachers for diversity, culturally connected teaching and learning, and inclusive transformative leadership for change, often in creative partnership with communities. Dr. King is internationally recognized for her innovative interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching practice, and leadership. Her concept of "dysconscious racism" continues to influence research and practice in education and sociology in the U.S. and in other countries. This volume weaves together ten of her most influential writings and four invited reflections from prominent scholars on the major themes the work addresses.

In the World Library of Educationalists, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces—extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or practical contributions—so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the development of a field.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

My Grandmother Made Quilts—Forms of Knowledge, Ways of Knowing and Being, Teachings for Human Freedom

part |126 pages

Groundings Answering an Ancestral Call, Deciphering Dysconscious Racism

chapter |24 pages

In Search of a Method for Liberating Education and Research

The Half (That) Has Not Been Told

chapter |51 pages

Critical and Qualitative Research in Teacher Education

A Blues Epistemology for Cultural Weil-Being and a Reason for Knowing

chapter |15 pages

Dysconscious Racism

Ideology, Identity, and the Miseducation of Teachers

chapter |13 pages

“[Art Thou] Come To the Kingdom for Such a Time as This?”

Transformative Public Scholarship for Social Change

part |131 pages

Afrocentric Praxis

chapter |22 pages

“If Justice is our Objective”

Diaspora Literacy, Heritage Knowledge, and the Praxis of Critical Studyin' for Human Freedom

chapter |29 pages

Who Dat Say (We) “Too Depraved to be Saved”?

Re-membering Katrina/Haiti (and Beyond): Critical Studyin' for Human Freedom

chapter |15 pages

“Thank You for Opening Our Minds”

On Praxis, Transmutation, and Black Studies in Teacher Development