Looking Back, Envisioning Forward: Teacher Educators of Color Unsettling Whiteness for Collective Liberation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

There is a persistent gap in teacher education scholarship that examines nuanced insights on anti-racist approaches from racially diverse teacher educators of Color. This gap warrants that scholars rethink teacher education research, practices, and policies to re-member the histories and re-imagine the futures alongside teacher educators of Color. This symposium brings together four ethnically and racially diverse teacher educators of Color to showcase how they employ innovative theoretical, methodological, and practical approaches to unsettle whiteness in their professional lives and respective institutions. In honoring the historical roots of anti-racist education and cultivating innovative anti-racist praxis, the four teacher educators reimagine their lived experiences and professional expertise as tools for collective liberation.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 07: Teacher Educator Initial and Ongoing Development

Chair

• Kimberly A. White-Smith, University of San Diego

Papers

• Telling the Truth: Critical Race Theory, Teacher Preparation, and the Urgency of (Re)membering Anti-Racist Education - Cleveland Hayes, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Unforgetting the Emotionalities of Whiteness: Rectifying the Racial Harms in Teacher Education - Cheryl E. Matias, University of San Diego

• Leveraging Relationships in Pursuit of Racially-Just, Culturally Sustaining Teacher Diversification Pathways in the Midwest - Amanda Morales, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Critical Family History as a Gateway to Racial Literacy in Teacher Education - Lin Wu, Western Oregon University

Session Organizer

• Lin Wu, Western Oregon University

Discussant

• Dorinda Carter Andrews, Michigan State University