“I Wonder If It Mattered That They Were Arab”: Using Teacher-Parent Simulation to Develop Teachers’ Antiracist Sensitivities

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Abstract

This study explores anti-racist teacher development using a clinical simulation tool, focusing on teacher-parent relationships. Using linguistic ethnographic microanalysis, we analyzed a case-study of a video-recorded simulation session where Israeli Jewish teachers acted in a scenario they wrote about a conflict with an Arab mother. The analysis shows how the teachers negotiated parent identification during the simulation debriefing and how this afforded cultural learning. It demonstrates how playing and viewing a simulation, based on a scenario written in a “color-blind” manner, revealed the “color” involved in the conflict and transformed how the group identified the mother. This allowed teachers to challenge conceptions and examine alternative views. The study contributes to anti-racist teacher development and the development of clinical simulation tools.

Authors

• Idit Fast, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

• Dana Vedder-Weiss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev