"I'm Sorry You Feel That Way": Teacher Candidates' Enactments of Empathy During Live-Actor Clinical Simulations

• In Event: Uplifting Antiracist Teaching and Decentering Whiteness

Abstract

This qualitative research study draws on Black Feminism and Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) to analyze and describe Teacher Candidates’ (TCs’) enactments of empathy during live-actor clinical simulations. Findings emphasize the use of multiple datapoints in simulation-based research and illustrates distinctions between different enactments of empathy. This research exposed that, in simulated encounters, TCs often enacted performative allyship rather than empathy based in informed imagination, self-knowledge, and self-awareness (Hill Collins, 2000, 2009). Drawing on these findings, we seek to trouble the dysconscious whiteness of Practice-Based Teacher Education (PBTE) and provide scholarship, research, and practice towards Critical Practice Teacher Education (CPTE) (Kavanagh & Danielson, 2020; King, 1991; see also Daniels & Varghese, 2019; Peery, et al., 2019; Philip et al., 2019).

Authors

• MaryBeth Yerdon, Syracuse University
  Presenting Author

• Benjamin H. Dotger, Syracuse University
  Presenting Author