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Sharing the illumination: Audre Lorde's pedagogies of difference
1English and Africana Studies, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY, USA.
Abstract:
This essay explores how Audre Lorde's work as a professor can help contemporary educators teach students about difference and power. Drawing from my new book Open Admissions, it focuses on two particular facets of her teaching: first, the ways Lorde centered students' ideas to generate collective investment in courses and allow them to learn from one another, and second, how she combined both a public and private pedagogy to help them address the injustice they were studying. I conclude with a brief discussion of how Lorde's work has shaped my own approach to classrooms.
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