Community of Teachers: A Justice-Focused, Community-Engaged Teacher Preparation

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 10:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Community at the Core: Uplifting Community-Engaged Teacher Preparation (Table 10)

Abstract

The Education Studies Department at a rural central/eastern Kentucky College shares lessons learned while becoming an inclusive, justice-focused, and democratic Education Preparation Program (EPP) with its “Community of Teachers.” ESD values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI+B) and democratic relationships. We will share how the theoretical framework of Community of Practice frames our case study. We chronicle how ESD “walks its talk” and invests in the teacher profession. We detail the participants of the case study and outline our methodology of the case study. Data were analyzed, and three emergent themes were discovered about the praxis of ESD: (1) community-engaged and justice-focused teacher preparation, (2) community building within teacher preparation programs, and (3) diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

Authors

• Julian Viera Jr., Berea College

• Jon Saderholm, Berea College

• Nicholas Daniel Hartlep, Berea College

• Maggie Robillard, Berea College

• Keesha Greer-Effs, Berea College

• Lisa Rosenbarker, Berea College

• Shaniqua Robinson, Berea College

• Angela J. Cox, Berea College

• Cinda Holland, Berea Community Schools

• Noe Guevara, Berea Community Schools

• Herbie Brock, Berea College

• Heather Chapman, Berea College

• Joshua Woodward, Berea College

• Jennifer Whitt, Berea College

• Julia Allen, Madison County Schools

• Collis Robinson, Berea College