Teacher Candidates and Law Enforcement: Multimodal Narratives Through Ride-Alongs

• In Event: 67.068 - MTCC Roundtable Session 32
  In Roundtable Session: 67.068-3 - Disrupting Narratives: Innovative Teacher Preparation Practices

Abstract

With growing media coverage of the ways law enforcement engages with K-12 students and families, and with the escalation in public responses to the actions of officers, teachers are increasingly compelled to know their local contexts in intimate and nuanced ways. Conversation has increasingly focused on the role of race and other aspects of identity in these interactions. As such, 91 teacher candidates enrolled in an urban university teacher preparation program engaged in police ride-alongs, to learn about the ways the work of law enforcement officers intersects with our work as educators, and to consider the implications of race, class, gender, and other aspects of identity. This research explores the lasting insights, changes, and questions held by participants.

Author

• Anita Bright, Portland State University