Teacher Educators of Color and the Pervasive Racial Harm of Teacher Education

• In Event: Confronting Racial Bias and Fostering Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Teacher Education

Abstract

As research continues to point to the pervasive whiteness of teacher education, scholarship has also shown the impact of teacher educators of Color in disrupting Eurocentric curriculum, pedagogy, and ideologies. For decades, a growing body of auto-ethnographic accounts have documented racial harm that teacher educators of Color endure engaging in this labor; yet little has improved. Through a lens of critical race theory (CRT), this paper presents an analysis of in-depth interviews with 31 teacher educators of Color to document the patterns of racial harm they experience, enacted and/or condoned by programs leaders, faculty, and students. We end with a call for the institutional accountability of teacher education programs to identity and disrupt structural and interpersonal racism.

Authors

• Rita Kohli, University of California - Riverside

• Marcos Pizarro, California State University - Los Angeles

• Emily Dech, University of California - Riverside