Preservice Teachers of Color Telling Truths: Engaging Multimodal Pedagogies and Methodologies to Document Educational Realities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The purpose of this panel is to highlight the experiences, knowledge, languages, and literacies of Pre-Service Teachers of Color (PSToC) through practices of multimodal truth telling. The papers demonstrate pedagogical and methodological tools such as borderland zines, testimonios, pláticas, and mosaic narrative production. Collectively, the authors ask: (1) what are the varied experiential knowledges of PSToC and how are they created? (2) What are the healing practices that are central to knowledge production for PSToC? And (3) How can we look towards the experiences of pre-service teachers to teach us about pedagogy in teacher preparation? The papers take up these questions across different institutional contexts, with different populations of PSToC, and through a variety of modes of meaning making.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 05: Teacher and Teacher Educator Preparation

Chair

• Monica Gonzalez Ybarra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Papers

• Zines From the Borderlands: Chicanx/Latinx Preservice Teacher Multimodal Critical Reflections - Monica Gonzalez Ybarra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Idalia Nunez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Co-Constructing Meaning Through Plática: Latina Preservice Testimonios, Sharings, and Experiences in a Teacher Education Program at a Hispanic-Serving Institution - Adrianna González Ybarra, University of Missouri

• The Truths About Asian American Women Preservice Teachers: Ecstatic Resistance, Joy, and Care - Grace D. Player, University of Connecticut; Erica Abela, University of Connecticut; Tamashi Hettiarachchi, West Hartford Public Schools

Discussant

• Danny C. Martinez, University of California - Davis