That's Not Just the Way It Is: A Duoethnography of Interrupting Whiteness With Teachers

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Disrupting Whiteness and Settler Pedagogies

Abstract

Grounded in critical whiteness studies and informed by the goals of duoethnography, this article analyzes
social vignettes for what they might teach us about problems and actions of non-participation in whiteness
discourse as two white women who identify as anti-racist teacher educators. Ethnographic data provides noticings of the concealed politics of whiteness discourse
and ways that they entangle with the role of teacher educator. The study offers an inroad to the project
of disrupting whiteness discourse in public learning spaces/in the role of teacher. This reveals some moments
of non-participation that our work presents when white novice teacher educators attempt to uphold and enact
disruptive discourse through shared conversation in various teacher education contexts.

Authors

• Jennifer Catherine Dauphinais, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Jenna Kamrass Morvay, Miami University - Oxford