Nathaniel Stewart

Profile

I am a former middle school science teacher and Black liberatory pedagogist, turned educational policy scholar.  My knowledge-creation activities explore Black, justice-oriented, and K-12 educators’ unique roles as policy activists and Black student agency shepherds. In the classroom, I delivered general science education, and curriculum rooted in the scientific advancements and contributions of my students and I's African ancestors.  However, I realized that oppressive educational policy structures suppressed the influence my community had on the educational politics that dictated our lives.  Aligned with other Black educators’ experiences, I was pushed out of the classroom due to anti-democratic structures.  Now, I position my work to support Black, Brown, and Indigenous-serving, justice-oriented school leaders and educators as we partner to produce knowledge capable of abolishing, dismantling, and transforming oppressive educational policy structures.

I situate our collective inquiry guided by critical quantification, anti-colonial epistemologies, and Black Critical Theory, purposed to bolster the political and pedagogical activities of Black educators, school leaders, and our co-conspirators.

Courses Taught

OLPD 8302—Educational Policy Perspectives