Inside and Outside the Ziploc Bag of Traditional Teacher Education: A Professor and Student Dialogue With Freire, Their Research, and Each Other

• In Event: Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: Teacher Education in Dialogue With Paulo Freire

Abstract

This presentation is a dialogue between a teacher educator and teacher candidate from the same traditional teacher education program in the United States. Our session has two aims: first, to tell our research stories about teacher education in the United States and Chile in order to re-imagine the ways in which Freire’s pedagogy of freedom might be embodied inside—and outside—teacher education programs. Second, to foster dialogue with the session participants around questions such as: In what ways does teacher education in the United States limit and/or inspire the critical imaginations of its participants? What can we learn from our experiences outside of traditional teacher education that might transform our pedagogies within it?

Author

• Melissa Noelle Winchell, University of Massachusetts - Boston