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Teacher Educators Creating Critical and Anti-Oppressive Alternative Spaces Within University-Based Programs

Tue, April 17, 12:25 to 1:55pm, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Concourse Level, Concourse B Room

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This symposium works to explore the potential and impact of creating critical and anti-oppressive (Kumashiro, 2000) alternative spaces within traditional teacher education as an important dimension of public education. The papers in this symposium explore the ways that teacher educators – and students – within teacher education have worked to structure, develop, and protect alternative spaces that center the experiences of traditionally marginalized teacher education students, explicitly engage with issues of racialized, classed, linguicized, gendered, and sexualized power, and highlight the inherent contradictions and shortcomings of normative structures and spaces in traditional teacher education.

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