Towards an antiracist scholar-activist pedagogy: putting critical pedagogy and scholar-activism in dialogue.

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Despite implicit recognition of the connections between critical pedagogy and scholar-activism, few have seriously explored their synergies, leaving their potential untapped. Taking this as an entry point, the article bridges critical pedagogy and scholar-activism to conceptualises an antiracist scholar-activist pedagogy. In doing so, the article argues that scholar-activism's deep engagement with social movements enhances critical pedagogy's pursuit of social change; and critical pedagogy's emphasis on the classroom enables scholar-activism to embrace teaching as transformative praxis. Drawing on data from 29 semi-structured interviews with university-based antiracist scholar-activists, the article charts a practical way forward for those interested in teaching in pursuit of social justice, whilst considering how the potential of scholar-activist pedagogy is constrained in higher education contexts underpinned by neoliberalism and institutional racism.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Connelly, L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9564-9106 Joseph-Salisbury, R.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2025 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in Teaching in Higher Education is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Keywords:	scholar-activist pedagogy; critical pedagogy; higher education; scholar-activism; social justice; classroom-to-activism pipeline
Dates:	Published: 20 February 2025 Published (online): 20 February 2025 Accepted: 11 December 2024 Submitted: 3 July 2024
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	08 Jan 2025 15:34
Last Modified:	24 Feb 2025 09:36
Status:	Published online
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1080/13562517.2025.2449649
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:221459

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