Faculty of Color Counternarratives, Lessons, and Disruptions: Examining Truth, Praxis, and Erasure in Teacher Education

Session Type: Virtual Symposium

Abstract

Faculty of color who teach pre-service teachers are often silenced and disregarded despite playing a vital role in equity and maintaining diversity in those programs. The experiences of faculty of color are not homogenous but they are racially challenged and often linguistically constrained instead of being seen as vital to the intellectual economy of teacher education departments. The presentations in this session will show how P-16+ educators, in particular faculty of color, navigate their intersectional identities and produce real change while contesting what is “truth.” Additionally, the session centers the lived narratives of faculty of color from across different cultural backgrounds while addressing the consequences of research that fails to consider one of its most critical assets -- faculty of color.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 03: Teachers’ Lives, Identities, and Journeys

Chair

• Dorothy E. Hines, University of Kansas

Papers

• More Than Black Maled: Faculty of Color Teaching Social Studies in an Era of "Post-Truth" - Daniel Josiah Thomas, Texas A&M University

• Interrogating Linguicism in Teacher Education: A Critical Autoethnography of a Bilingual Teacher Educator - Hyesun Cho, University of Kansas

• Black Women, Truth, and Racial Lies: Assessing the "Truth" About Teaching Diversity Courses in Teacher Education at a Predominantly White Institution - Dorothy E. Hines, University of Kansas

• Memory as Curriculum: Black Men Teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at a Historically White College - Nicholas E. Mitchell, University of Kansas

Discussant

• Dorothy E. Hines, University of Kansas