Resisting Erasure: Racialized Teacher Candidates Rewriting the Future of Teacher Education

• In Event: Virtual Poster Session
  In Virtual iPresentation Only: Division K - Section 04: Foundations of Teaching and Teacher Education for Socio-Cultural, Racial, and Intersecting Minoritized Identities Virtual Poster Session

Abstract

This study interrogates the racialized experiences of teacher candidates in predominantly white teacher education programs. Using narrative inquiry informed by Critical Race Theory and Community Cultural Wealth, it centers counter-stories that expose institutional exclusion while illuminating cultural strengths. Findings reveal how candidates mobilize resistant, navigational, and aspirational capitals to survive, resist, and reimagine teaching as a site of transformative justice. Their narratives unforget histories of marginalization and envision a radically inclusive future for education. This research challenges deficit paradigms and calls for structural transformation rooted in equity, care, and community legitimacy.

Author

• Wenefe Capili-Balbalin, University of Ottawa