Uplifting Black Pedagogical Rituals of Purpose Through Portraits of Toni Morrison’s Humanistic Education

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In this track, we explore the role of purpose in pedagogy through reflections of Natalie Hibdon's experience teaching.We draw on the values of a humanistic education as outlined in Toni Morrison's 1991 Chicago Humanities Festival speech as a framework to read the pedagogical standpoints that animated Natalie's approach to teaching.We then ground those values through classroom experiences from Natalie's time teaching an ethnic studies curricular intervention in a middle school social studies classroom.We draw upon observations, interviews, and student artifacts collected in a social-design-based experiment to construct Natalie's autoethnographic and portraiture-grounded reflections.The conceptual offering is the notion of pedagogical rituals of purpose or acts of knowledge synthesis that cultivate love, dignity, truth, wisdom, and criticality through the facilitation of rigorous learning.Ultimately, we hope these learnings can help us transcend the ruins of schooling and plant seeds of Black futurity in education and beyond.

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