Afrocentricity and Sensory Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in Prison During COVID-19's Solitary Mass Confinement

In this Voices: Reflective Accounts of Education essay, Annalisa Butticci and Colie Levar Long reflect on the Afro cen tric and sen sory ped a gogy and positionalities that helped incar cer ated stu dents and their teacher cre ate a vir tual learn ing com mu nity within one postpandemic prison higher edu ca tion pro gram. Through an eth no graphic study of the online class and autoethnography of their expe ri ences using music as an essen tial part of the course, they pro vide valu able insights into teach ing and learn ing dur ing very challeng ing cir cum stances and while under emo tional duress.