Teacher and Leadership Educators of Color as Wounded Healers: Disrupting Dehumanization in Educator Preparation Programs

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will examine interventions used to disrupt university structures that have been harmful to the cultural souls of teacher/ed leadership educators, pre-service teachers/leaders of color, and potential white co-conspirators (Love, 2019). This symposium will explore how university-based, critically conscious teacher and leader educators of color navigate their local context and institutions as wounded healers. Papers will explore the cultural intuition and critical wisdom developed when navigating the toxic stress of schooling, all of which cultivated their critical praxis as teacher and leader educators and wounded healers. This panel hopes to offer insights to effective approaches for identifying, naming, and transforming the dehumanization of schooling through teacher/leader education as projects of humanization.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 4: Faculty, Curriculum, and Teaching

Chair

• David Philoxene, University of San Francisco

Papers

• CREWing UP With Educators of Color: A Critical Race Love Letter - G.T. Reyes, California State University - East Bay

• Data for What: Conceptualizing an Ethic of Care Around Teacher Education Data - Charlotte Achieng Evensen, Chapman University

• The Transformative Lives We Lead: Making Teacher Education Ours - Patrick Camangian, University of San Francisco

Discussant

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University