From Criminalization to Humanization: Antiracism Education Project Disrupting White Supremacy Paradigms in Teacher Education

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Abstract

This paper presents findings from the Anti-Racism Education Project in a public university pre-service teacher program, analyzing institutional level and course-level contexts. ARE Project Committee (authors) plans and leads anti-racism education at 3 levels: self: learning and growth for Education faculty & students; collective: ARE Project plan and curriculum across courses; world-shaping PK12 schools & communities with anti-racism education practices. Data analysis focuses on the department-wide ARE Town Hall event on the school-to-prison pipeline & the film 13th (Duvernay, 2016), and interrogating mass incarceration and institutional racism. Findings show predominantly White pre-service students need critical understandings of U.S. history and their racial identities. Implications include: priority for faculty learning; strengthening the ARE structures; deconstructing problematic “diversity placement” in segregated school systems.

Authors

• Andrew Habana Hafner, Westfield State University

• Miriam B. Tager, Westfield State University

• Laura Baker, Westfield State University:

• Floris Wilma Ortiz, Westfield State University

• Shannon Christine Gleason, Westfield State University