The Racialized Experiences and Transformative Possibilities of Teacher Educators of Color in Teacher Education

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Abstract

As research has for decades pointed to the pervasive whiteness of teacher education, a growing body of scholarship has drawn attention to teacher educators of Color and their impact in disrupting Eurocentric curriculum, pedagogy, and ideologies within teacher education programs. Additional studies have also described the emotional cost of this labor. While most existing research on teacher educators of Color is auto-ethnographic, this paper presents an systematic analysis of in-depth interviews with 31 teacher educators of Color. Using a lens of critical race theory (CRT), we identify the structural racism that teacher educators of Color endure across place and context, the impact of that racism, and we also name the tools they use to navigate, resist, and reimagine.

Author

• Rita Kohli, University of California - Riverside