18.042 - Disrupting Traditional Teacher Professional Development (PD): Critical PD for Teachers Committed to Social Justice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium features papers from critical education researchers, as a collective, they actively problematize the kinds of learning spaces that teachers are offered at their school site and school district. This panel conceptualizes the notion of teacher professional development to be more than just a process of professionalization and instead examines the humanizing experiences and critical perspectives in each of the different sites. The scholars investigate critical teacher development sites in urban school districts within California and New York. Each presenter will discuss the ways teachers of Color and teachers of Color in collaboration with White allies, engaged with, and further developed their analysis of larger social justice issues as they worked to bring those ideas into their classrooms.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Bree Picower, Montclair State University

Papers

• "Race Space" Critical Professional Development: Social Justice Ideological Becoming and Enactment Among In-Service Urban Teachers - Tiffany M Nyachae, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• H.E.L.L.A. Bay Area: A Critical, Community Cultural Wealth Model of Teacher Development - Farima Pour-Khorshid, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Community of Transformative Praxis: Validating and Inspiring Social Justice Teaching - Oscar Navarro, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Discussant

• Tyrone C. Howard, University of California - Los Angeles