Affiliation:
1. Georgia State University, USA
Abstract
Within the academy, Black Women professors have cultivated theories and practices for well-being, utilizing memoirs for theorization and social movements. However, their theories and practices should be more valued within the literature on holistic or healing pedagogies or teacher education (Muhammad et al., 2020). Teacher education is in a crisis with reports of high demands and stress levels with low autonomy and pay (Doan et al., 2023). This is an exploratory study of six Black Women professors' healing theories and practices produced through the genre of memoirs. Therefore, this chapter aims to inform professors, teacher educators, and educational leaders about Black Women's healing practices as creative expressions of their activism, research, and teaching (ART) (Tyson, 2001) and ways of well-being. In this way, it aims to move Black Women's healing theories and ways of knowing from the margins to the center of knowledge production in the context of teacher education.
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