Rupture and Repair: Teacher of Color Identity Re-Formation in the Rural Southwest

• In Event: Rupture, Repair, and (Re)humanizing With/for Black Women Teachers and Teachers of Color

Abstract

Teachers have complex identities intertwined with their racial, gender, ethnic, and national backgrounds. These identities animate their decision making, value judgements, and ethics of their work as they design and implement curriculum. This study centers a qualitative investigation of teacher engagement in the co-design and co-implementation of a summer curriculum in the rural Southwest and highlights two focal teachers. The teachers in this study are immigrants from Philippines and the school district serves a student population that is predominantly Native American and Latine. By surfacing the teacher identity renegotiation and repair, this study highlights the complexity within diverse teacher communities and supports teachers of color as they create spaces for meaningful and justice-oriented learning.

Author

• Kate Baca, University of Colorado - Boulder