What, why and how do we do what we do?
: Aminkeng A. Alemanji, Minna Seikkula
: Aminkeng A. Alemanji
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
: 2017
: Antiracism Education In and Out of Schools
: Antiracism Education In and Out of Schools
: 171
: 193
: 23
: 978-3-319-56314-5
: 978-3-319-56315-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56315-2_8
Race and racism have traditionally been undermined and contested
concepts in the Finnish academia, but they are receiving growing
scholarly attention. Aside of becoming objects of critical research,
they are also increasingly addressed in university education. This
chapter interrogates complexities of teaching race and racism from the
point of view of two researchers. It ponders views on academic
antiracism education in the context of an education system with
tendencies for segregation, and it provides contextual interpretations
and discussions of race, racism and antiracism from a personalised
perspective. The chapter is constructed as a dialogue between two
researchers occupying distinct racialised positions, and thus it
reflects the question of positionality in teaching about race and
racism. Inspired by critical race studies, the paper introduces a unique
take on practices of anti-racist teaching in Finland.