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Article

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Published Version

Publication Date

12-13-2022

Publication Title

Frontiers in Education

DOI

10.3389/feduc.2022.964490

Abstract

The American School Counseling Association calls for professional school counselors to support the holistic development and success of all students. However, the field of school counseling is riddled with practices that have harmed and dehumanized Black students. For example, school counselors engage in practices (e.g., social–emotional learning and vocational guidance), which work to reinforce white supremacy and dehumanize Black students. Further, school counselors may also contribute to the ways that the basic and unique needs of Black students are overlooked, leading to the continued systemic adultification of Black students. What is needed is a radical imagination of school counseling, which centers on homeplace as the foundation in order to engage in freedom dreaming. In this article, the authors engage this radical imagination to detail an antiracist view of school counseling practice that embraces freedom dreaming and homeplace through healing and Indigenous educational practices, youth-led school counseling, and critical hip-hop practices to promote joy, creativity, power, love, resistance, and liberation.

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Copyright © 2022 Mayes, Edirmanasinghe, Ieva and Washington. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

Publication of this article was supported by the 2022-23 Rowan University Libraries Open Access Publishing Fund.

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