Coming Together as Academia Works to Keep us Apart: Teacher Education Research Study Groups as a Mechanism for Change

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium features three studies stemming from LRA’s Teacher Education Research Study Group, covering a range of topics—from mitigating teacher educator burnout to interrogating niceness and whiteness in teacher education—and theoretical and conceptual frameworks. In working together, sharing the burden of research, teaching, and service, we share how the group has become a mechanism for higher education faculty to collaboratively fight against the institutional barriers that work to keep us apart.

Content Area

• AREA 14. Other Topics

Chair

• Heidi Lyn Hadley, Auburn University

Discussant

• Seth Parsons, George Mason University

Individual Presentations

• Resisting Narratives of Higher Education as a Labor of Love - Marliese Peltier, Ball State University; Courtney Shimek, West Virginia University

• Resisting Narratives of Niceness and Whiteness in Teacher Education - Wendy Gardiner, Pacific Lutheran University; Tierney B Hinman, Auburn University; Amy Tondreau, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

• Resisting Narratives of Performativity as Academic Productivity - Tierney B Hinman, Auburn University; Amy Tondreau, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Wendy Gardiner, Pacific Lutheran University