Teacher Development 3.0: Confronting Our Capacity to Reproduce Educational and Social Injustice

• In Event: Division G Vice Presidential Session: Troubling Hollow Commitments to “Diversity”: Denouncing Whiteness as a Design Feature in Teacher Education Programs

Abstract

Rejecting the terms of the polarized debates that are currently dominant: with regard to initial teacher education, ‘reform’ and ‘defend’ positions have become so entrenched that sustainable change for the good is ever more difficult to achieve, the Teacher Education Exchange (a group of teachers, school leaders, teacher educators and researchers in the UK) offers four design principles essential for transforming the professional education of teachers, specifically attending to how teacher education is implicated in the production of racial inequity.

Author

• Viv Ellis, King's College London