Teaching Candidates Learning to Teach in an Antiracist/Climate-Justice Program: Challenges and Promises (Poster 18)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Session 1:15 pm
  In Poster Session: Talking Race and Cultural Diversity in Education

Abstract

This proposed presentation presents findings from a study examining the impact of a teacher preparation program redesign emphasizing the intersection of anti-racist education and climate justice education on secondary teaching candidates’ conceptualization and practice. As part of the redesign, the program formed a partnership with a neighboring combined middle/high school emphasizing project based learning (PBL), embedding the graduate-level program into the middle school. Findings showed that candidates who took part in the redesign benefited greatly from the PBL climate-justice focus of the program, but, with one exception, had more difficulty applying the anti-racist emphasis to their practice in a meaningful way.

Author

• Richard D. Sawyer, Washington State University - Vancouver