Creating Space: Early Career MotherScholars Building Community in Urban Teacher Education

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Abstract

This study documents the experiences of a group of early career motherscholars in an online inquiry group. Based on the method of self-study, we contribute to understanding the socialization of teacher educators into the profession through an analysis of the reflective collective space created in this group. Inquiry group meetings were focused on our successes, challenges, and questions of simultaneously becoming mothers and scholars, and meeting notes were analyzed through two conceptual frameworks: professional vision and relationality. Findings explore how our work supported us in creating space for relationship building and for diverse types of learning across the contexts of teaching, research, activism, and mothering.

Authors

• Heather F. Clark, California State University - Dominguez Hills

• Yoonjin Nam-Huh, California State University - Dominguez Hills

• Sara Jasmin Diaz-Montejano, University of California - Los Angeles