Brett Elizabeth Blake

A Broken Arch, a Broken Bridge, and a Broken Promise: Using Kincheloe’s Critical Pedagogy Concepts to Teach About Race in an Urban Graduate School Classroom

This account of racial conflinct in the United States during fall 2014 was the sociocultural conflict experienced by graduate students who were transitioning into teaching careers. As these students from different ethnic backgrounds foreground their thinking on teaching and the relevance of racial experiences to the classroom, they each wrote about their reactions to Kincheloe’s critical constructivism finding their way clear to accept even bigger challenges to their personal and professional lives than they had anticipated at the outset of the semester. In gratitude, Blake expresses the importance of Kincheloe’s work to her teaching past and present.