“In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength”: Resistance and Reclamation of Asian American Teachers’ Truths within the Social Studies

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Friday 3:45pm
  In Poster Session: Trajectories of Transformation: From Preparation to Resistance in Teaching

Abstract

This critical qualitative study investigates the hegemonic and official school curriculum’s intent to negate stories of civic representations, resistance and belonging of Asian Americans. However, through several tenets of AsianCrit and Holland et al.’s figured worlds analysis, we investigate how dominant narratives can be disrupted and dismantled by social studies teacher education candidates that engage their own personal histories and enact critical pedagogical content knowledge and critical pedagogical practices.

Authors

• William Hanjin Bae, University of Texas at Austin

• Cinthia S. Salinas, University of Texas at Austin