Teaching the Teacher Movements: Theorizing Teacher Organizing as Curricula for Justice-Oriented Teacher Education

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: Issues in Teachers Work: Teaching, Curriculum, and Activism

Abstract

In the past decade teachers across the United States have increasingly joined organizing efforts to remake the modern educational landscape, coming together to confront racial injustice, ongoing austerity, stagnant wages, and unsafe working conditions. Yet to be explored, however, is what these movements can teach the next generation of teachers. This paper analyzes the growing body of literature on teacher movements in the United States and theorizes these movements as curricula for critical, justice-oriented teacher education. More specifically, this paper argues that teaching the teacher movements can articulate a praxis grounded in racial, economic, gender, and labor justice for future teachers.

Author

• Dana Morrison, West Chester University of Pennsylvania