"But I'm not a racist!" Phenomenology, racism, and the body schema in white, pre-service teacher education. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lewis, Tyson E.
• Is Part Of: Race, ethnicity and education. Volume 21:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 131
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Anti-racist pedagogy -- phenomenology -- Merleau-Ponty -- Freire -- Du Bois -- teacher education -- critical whiteness studies; Minorities -- Education -- Periodicals; Educational equalization -- Periodicals; Multicultural education -- Periodicals; Race relations -- Periodicals; Race awareness -- Periodicals; Black people -- Race identity -- Periodicals; 306.432
• DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2016.1195354
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1361-3324

Abstract

Abstract: In this article, I call for a phenomenological turn in educating white, pre-service teachers. As opposed to dominant pedagogical models which focus on changing one's beliefs about race, phenomenology points toward the importance of pre-conceptual, pre-critical forms of racial embodiment. Here I draw upon recent work on the different between body image (beliefs about the body) and body schema (what the body can do). The worry is that existing forms of anti-oppressive education miss the centrality of the schema, and thus do not go far enough in uncovering the embodied, perceptual roots of racism.