The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Auto-Ethnography of a Transnational Immigrant Teacher of Color

• In Event: 25.083 - MTCC Roundtable Session Eight
  In Roundtable Session: 25.083-3 - Teacher Professional, Racial, and Ethnic Identities and High-Needs Schools

Abstract

Through this autoethnography, I seek to establish a professional identity in the context of a predominantly White, university-based teacher education program in the U.S. I reflect on my identity development as a transnational teacher of color from India, bringing the importance of multiplex identities to the foreground in the wider professional discourses and practices of teacher education. Employing autobiographical analysis, I then create a counter-story to the dominant discourses of teacher education to call for bringing in more perspectives and experiences from teachers like me.

Author

• Ayesha Rabadi-Raol, Teachers College, Columbia University