Extraordinary Pedagogies: Toward a Model for Dynamic and Disruptive Teacher Education

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Abstract

The teacher education curriculum model presented in this paper mediates the breaches between our mostly white teacher workforce and increasingly diverse student populations. Specifically, the model shows how to complicate white preservice teachers’ awareness of identity politics; graduate their understanding of ways to situate themselves inside of those politics; develop a capacity to conceive of their diverse students’ situatedness, along with energy to resituate them; acquire stamina in navigating stressful relational and institutional dynamics in which race and gender injuries are in effect; evolve leadership in taking a stand for social justice through emotional justice; and cultivate respect for new literacies and logics used to navigate the tensions of personhood within teaching/learning contexts.

Author

• Jeanine M. Staples-Dixon, Pennsylvania State University