"Not Being Racist and Antiracist Is Not the Same": Preservice Teachers' Reflection for Social Justice

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: Preservice Teacher Learning Through Reflective

Abstract

Given the recent events related to issues of systemic racism, we assert the need for teachers to move beyond reflection that emphasizes external criteria for performance, a technical orientation, and also beyond one that takes an introspective approach, a personalistic orientation. It is necessary to engage in reflective practice to examine questions of equity, social justice, and democracy through a critical orientation. The moral and ethical considerations in critical reflection extend more broadly into society than in personalistic reflection. In this inquiry, we examine preservice teachers’ reflective thinking about their practice within the context of a graduate course on instructional decision-making from an explicit social justice orientation.

Authors

• Frederick Peinado Nelson, California State University - Fresno

• Elizabeth Miller, Humboldt State University

• Selena E Van Horn, California State University - Fresno