Teaching Toward Plurality: Black, Queer, and White Women Educators Reimagining Teacher Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 1:45 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Eisner and Contemporary Research

Abstract

In this conceptual paper built on teacher reflection, three educators came together to imagine pathways and ends-in-view for teacher education. Framed within the work of Eisner, Dillard, Love, Ngugi, Shelton, and Willis, we used a handful of nodal moments from the past and present to explore what it means to teach future English teachers in an urban university course. Coupled with an exploration of past contributions from Black women and queer educators and scholars, we mapped how we can produce multiple pathways for preservice teachers to cultivate their minds in a space rich with cultures both similar and different to their own.

Authors

• Michelle Zoss, Georgia State University

• Marie Ojofeitimi, Georgia State University

• Joshua Daniel McCall, Atlanta Public Schools