Social Justice Teacher Preparation: Throughlines Across University, Teacher Residency, and First Year in the Classroom

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Abstract

While the significance of preparing social justice oriented teachers is well-borne out in literature, there is comparatively little scholarship around how novice educators of color are prepared to adopt a social justice oriented approach to teaching and how this is enacted in their first year of teaching. Through a longitudinal qualitative study, this proposal documents 1) two novice teachers of color’s experiences with social justice teacher preparation and 2) how they engaged in such pedagogy in their first year in the classroom. Teachers and researchers must understand how the roots of individuals' full educational histories impact their role as educators. In this way, educators will be able to cultivate both present and future generations of students.

Author

• Cori Salmerón, Georgia State University