Crisis Theory With/in Teacher Education Programs (CT-TEP): Understanding Preservice Teachers' Possible Selves Concerning COVID-19 and Systemic Racism

• In Event: Pitfalls and Possibilities: Examining Teacher Education in the Midst of COVID-19

Abstract

Two global pandemics, COVID-19 and systemic racism, have altered life throughout the educational landscape. This article examines how interplay of preservice teachers’ stressors and coping, filtered through their possible selves, provides teacher educators insight into the emotional health and well-being extreme crisis events have on preservice teachers. This article reviews data collected by a teacher educator during the first six weeks of the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown, revealing preservice teachers’ present and possible selves as well as implications for further research relating to the pandemic of systemic racism. Implications for teacher educators are discussed as is the shifting environment(s) of teacher education programs during both of these crises.

Author

• Scott Baker, St. Cloud State University