Global Perspectives, Local Responses: Decolonial and Antiracist Explorations of Teacher Education Practices, Discourses, and Spaces

• In Event: Marginality and Solidarity: Centering Race and Justice in Teacher Education

Abstract

This paper draws on the traditions of decolonial feminist inquiry to interrogate the dominant norms embedded in traditional university-based teacher education. With decolonial theory and antiracist pedagogy guiding this work, we collectively explore our encounters with colonizing practices, policies, and spaces of teacher education. We interrogate daily practices and interactions that normalize colonization of minds and bodies and push each other to imagine a different way of being and knowing in this world. Attending to global echoes of local conflicts, we take up our collective responsibility to address racial injustice in our communities and “learn to learn from below” by engaging with community activists who help us envision a different path forward toward decolonizing teacher education programs.

Authors

• Elena Aydarova, Auburn University

• Sedighe Zamani Roodsari, Auburn University

• Mary Corser, Auburn University

• Mae Margaret Davis, Auburn University

• Myia Hatchett, Auburn University

• Elizabeth Davis, Auburn University

• Ashtyn Croley, Auburn University