Using autoethnography as method based on an educator's reflective journey as they struggle to deliver an antiracist, community-based curriculum while meeting resistance in their predominately white classroom, this article aims to disrupt the manifestations of whiteness in educational spaces. Framed by literature on authentic caring and critical…

Mathematics teacher education has increasingly compelled mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) to take up the challenge of preparing prospective teachers to embrace justice-oriented pedagogies. Given the current climate of growing attacks on critical educators, I argue for the need to make visible and organize the ongoing ways MTEs engage in…

Focusing on the topical area of the ILA General Principles for Leadership Development Programs, number three, "content," this article aims to expand the conceptualization and meaning of the idea of content and broaden the knowledge of content through a critical perspective. Additionally, the purpose of the article is to offer ideas for…

This essay takes up Edward Said's insistence on truth, justice, and tracing continuities of colonial violence to reflect on the university in a time of genocide. We set the stage with an outline of the university complicities; conditions continuous with, and connected to, the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We establish the legal resonance of…

This framework explores the plurality of ways that research-practice partnerships (RPPs) conceptualize issues of equity, and with what consequences for what gets studied, whose voices are included in inquiry, and what knowledge is foregrounded in partnership activity. We draw on institutional theory and the perspectives of members from diverse…

What are we in rhetoric, writing, and literacy studies currently practicing? What practices do harm and, in contrast, which counter harm? How do we disrupt everyday, cumulative, and structural injustices and instead invest in accountability? In addition to asking these and other questions, this article engages four accountability practices that…

Increasingly, science teachers are seeking phenomena that will allow them to explore both scientific content and socially relevant issues. The authors describe a series of lessons that (1) model the exoneration of wrongly convicted individuals using the science of DNA analysis and (2) contextualize individual cases within a larger system where…

'Epistemic exploitation occurs when privileged persons compel marginalised knowers to educate them [and others] about the nature of their oppression' (Berenstain, 2016, p. 569). This paper scrutinizes some of the purported wrongs underpinning this practice, so that educators might be better equipped to understand and avoid or mitigate harms which…

This editorial explores the intersection of equity and validity in language assessment, focusing on language-minoritized test-takers. Recognizing that tests often perpetuate inequitable power dynamics, our special issue, 'Equity Orientations for Validity Frameworks: Exploring the Intersections of Language and Assessment for Language-Minoritized…

This case study is based on original research for a new teaching toolkit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), in Norwich, UK. The toolkit seeks to support the cultivation of equitable, fair, and dignified learning environments in UK Higher Education. It is grounded in decolonial principles that emphasize the relevance of ongoing reflexivity and…

In this piece, Kivel provides a necessary introduction to the concept of adultism and proposes practical steps for adults, including educators, youth workers and others, to take action to address adultism by becoming allies.

Health professional learners are increasingly called to learn about health inequity to reduce inequities and improve patient care and health outcomes. Anti-oppression pedagogy (AOP) addresses the need for health professional learners to understand multiple health inequities and the structures and systems that produce inequities. However, the…

This article establishes a framework for teaching and learning for mutual respect. I define mutual respect as intervening on power asymmetries typically found in classrooms by way of according students increased equality, autonomy, and equity. In highlighting how equality, autonomy, and equity interact in ongoing and unpredictable ways in…

Recently there has been an increasing focus on the social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy. To ensure that this does not merely function as rhetoric, therapists must consider how to translate their social justice values into action. In this paper we aim to extend current understandings of social justice by foregrounding an emphasis…

How do teacher preparation programs re-culture themselves so that we can supply educational settings with teachers who work toward liberation from racism and other systems of oppression? Abolitionist education is one strategic framework that can be utilized to support this systemic re-culturing. I share my experiences in re-designing and…