Novice Teachers' Racial Literacy Knowledge: Findings From the KoRaL Survey

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Abstract

One powerful way to disrupt racial injustice and address educational inequities is by building teachers’ racial literacy. A critical step toward this is understanding what teachers understand about racial literacy and how they enact their racial literacy in their teaching. Teachers’ racial literacy is often studied qualitatively. While important, findings are limited in generalizability. To address this need, we (1) examined the internal validity Knowledge of Teachers’ Racial Literacy (KoRaL) survey and (2) patterns of racial knowledge among a national sample of 486 novice teachers (NTs). Findings from EFA analysis suggest that KoRaL holds promise in providing policy-makers and teacher educators with generalizable guidance about NT’s racial literacy knowledge. Analyses of patterns in NTs’ racial literacy are underway.

Authors

• Pallavi Chhabra, Washington University in St. Louis

• Catherine A. Lammert, Texas Tech University

• Poonam Arya, Wayne State University

• Lisa O'Brien, Merrimack College

• Isabel Fernandes, Merrimack College