In this clip, Karen Hunter is joined by Dr. Tasha Austin to discuss the design of academia, its roots and what it was made to do. Is it functioned to serve its original purpose?
The pair also delve deeply into language and how it can often lead to people being racially profiled both here and abroad.
About Dr. Tasha Austin
Tasha Austin is an assistant professor of teacher education, language education and multilingualism. She is the outgoing Teacher Education Special Interest Group Representative for New Jersey Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages-New Jersey Bilingual Educators (NJTESOL-NJBE) and co-created and hosted their “Critical Conversations” YouTube series. Her research uses critical race theory and Black feminist epistemologies through a raciolinguistic perspective to qualitatively examine language, identity and power, and the ways in which anti-Blackness emerges in language education and (language) teacher preparation. Through her purposeful enactment of critical consciousness and engaged pedagogies, her praxis seeks to effect meaningful change in the field of language education and within teacher education more broadly.
