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“Community Is Wherever I Am”: A Sista Circle on Othermotherwork in Teacher Education

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: As an exploration of potential support structures for Black women teachers, this study elicits the wisdom of Black women as othermothers who serve in an array of urban instructional settings. Using a Sista Circle Methodology as framed through Black Girl Cartographies and Radical Mothering, we found that through the dual healing processes of (re)membering and (re)fusal, these women became one another's homeplaces. Implications include a need to activate potentials of carework within communities of Black women teachers via unstructured opportunities to gather or to convene in culturally conducive spaces free from institutionally driven norms and expectations.

Source: Urban Education

DOI: 10.1177/00420859251382191

Authors: Tasha Austin, Dawnavyn James, Teresa Leggard, Rosangela Bencosme-Perez, Modiegi Notoane-Eugene

Institutions: University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Metropolitan Community College, Metropolitan Community College - Kansas City, College of Saint Elizabeth

Language: English

Topic: Critical Race Theory in Education

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,900