Exploring Preservice Teacher Learning through Community Using Humanizing Critical Sociocultural Knowledge and Intellectual Curiosity Projects

Multiple Presenter Session: Panel

Abstract

As noted in the AESA 2025 call for proposals, the foundations in education play a vital role in building and explicating knowledge across divergent spaces, fields, and communities. This panel of teacher educators and undergraduate teacher candidates explores a year-long professional learning community (PLC) experience of preservice teachers who convened to learn about teaching U.S. slavery. This PCL was conceived as an Intellectual Curiosity Project (ICP), a pedagogical innovation coined by the first author. Drawing from a humanizing critical sociocultural knowledge teaching orientation this panel reflectively analyzes the experiences, unexpected turns, and new sociocultural understandings about teaching that emerged for all participants.

Sub Track

• AESA

Presenters

• Keffrelyn Brown, The University of Texas at Austin

• Anthony Brown, The University of Texas at Austin

• Nkasano Fullerton, The University of Texas at Austin

• Caitlyn Feddock, The University of Texas at Austin

• Terryn Hargis, The University of Texas at Austin

• Phylicia Harkness, The University of Texas at Austin

• Hawon Yi, The University of Texas at Austin