Navigation or Transformation: Evidence From Two Different Approaches to Social Justice in Teacher Residency Programs

• In Event: 66.087 - MTCC Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: 66.087-1 - Doing the Hard Work: Developing Humanizing Dispositions in Teacher Preparation Programs

Abstract

There is limited research on teacher residencies and race is only a tangential focus in most of what has been published on these programs, which inhibits our understanding of this prolific addition to the teacher education landscape. In this paper, I explore how two ideologically different teacher residency programs – No Excuses Teacher Residency (NETR) and Progressive Teacher Residency (PTR) – address issues of race and racism and attempt to promote social justice through their coursework and field placements. I find each program employs a different vision of social justice: one favors navigation, the other transformation. However, local factors and broader social forces seem to inhibit each program's progress towards its respective vision.

Author

• Victoria Marie Theisen-Homer, Arizona State University