Educating Educators in the Age of Trump

• In Event: 15.026 - Division K Poster Session A

Abstract

Through a careful examination of the weekly reflections that my students wrote and the discussions that we had in class, this paper addresses how my course, “Education in the Age of Trump,” aimed to educate pre-service educators in the Age of Trump so that they, too, could use our nation’s history as a way to name and address injustice. This course focused on the history of racism and white supremacy to push students to think critically about the ways that conservatives and liberals have promoted policies and practices to uphold racial inequity and injustice throughout American history. The course aimed to teach them this history so that they then could use it in their own classrooms.

Author

• Erika Kitzmiller, Teachers College, Columbia University