A Talk to Teacher Educators: The Significance of Baldwin for the Work of Preparing Teachers

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

James Baldwin’s incisive analysis of racism, schooling, and teaching in “A Talk to Teachers” is as pertinent today as it was in 1963. As AERA returns to the city Baldwin rejected decades ago for its trenchant racism, this symposium brings together teacher education scholars of color to explore the persistent and renewed relevance of Baldwin’s writing for contemporary teacher education. Within the backdrop of mounting efforts to undermine public schools and efface university-based teacher education, participants draw on their scholarship to explore Baldwin’s charge for teacher educators today: How do we work in solidarity with students, teachers, families, and communities to develop teachers who see the dismantling of structures and ideologies of White supremacy as fundamental and integral to teaching?

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education

Chair

• Thomas M. Philip, University of California - Los Angeles

Participants

• Kris Gutierrez, University of California - Berkeley

• Rich Milner, University of Pittsburgh

• Thomas M. Philip, University of California - Los Angeles

• Mariana Souto-Manning, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State University