Somewhere Between a Rock and an Outer Space: Regenerating Apocalyptic Education

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Futures Studies

Volume

26

Issue

3

DOI

10.6531/JFS.202203_26(3).0003

First Page

25

Last Page

44

Abstract

As Black people, our everyday existence invites us to remember that anti-blackness is the foundation of modern civilization and has metastasized throughout every construction of civil society (Sharpe, 2016). Our existence within schools unveils them as self-replicating enclosures spawned by the plantation to undermine Black life (Sojoyner, 2017). In this paper, we use an Apocalyptic Educational framework (Marie & Watson, 2020) to share research on the biological (telomere) impact of schooling and anti-blackness. We aim to distinguish education from schooling and disrupt normative beliefs that more Black children accessing better schools will lead to their social, economic, and physiological wellness.

Funding Number

UL1GM118985-03

Funding Sponsor

National Institutes of Health

Keywords

Anti-blackness, Apocalyptic education, Black wellness, Re-membering, School abolition

Department

Teacher Education

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