Social Justice and Student Teaching: Dismantling Whiteness and Dis/Ability

• In Event: Exploring the Implications of Disability With Preservice Teachers

Abstract

This roundtable presentation shares preliminary results of a study analyzing student teachers' reflections to prompts, grounded in the University mission statements, exploring how they viewed socially just teaching. We present data from thematic coding that suggests the preservice teachers view social justice as differentiation, tending to view meeting the needs of students in ways that link difference to dis/ability. Implications for challenging these dis/crit hierarchies are discussed and possibilities for using these findings are explored.

Authors

• Vanessa Winn, University of Dayton

• Jackie M Arnold, University of Dayton

• Abbie Morneault, University of Dayton