Assault in the Academy: Teacher Educators and the Struggle for Social Justice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The papers in this symposium are concerned with the continuing inadequacy of teacher preparation in the United States. Most teachers enter the classroom unprepared to effectively teach African American and other students of color. The continuing inadequacy of teacher preparation in the U.S. has significant implications given the increasing racial diversity and transformation of classroom demographics currently underway in our nation’s public schools and society. The purpose of this symposium is to extend the existing literature on multicultural teacher education by examining the myriad forms of violence directed at people of color and others who are targeted as threats of Whiteness in teacher preparation programs. We are concerned with what happens, and the consequences of challenging Whiteness in teacher education.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 3: Focus on the Lives of Teachers (knowledge, thinking, dispositions, perspectives, ideology, reflective practice, and the moral dimensions of teaching)

Chair

• Paul Cameron Gorski, George Mason University

Papers

• And You Wonder Why I Am Angry - Cleveland Hayes, University of La Verne

• Critical Race Parenting in a Time of Racial Extermination - Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver; Roberto Montoya, University of Colorado - Denver

• The Paranoid Professor: Invisible Scars From Unhooking From Whiteness and Their Impact on Teaching - Nicholas Daniel Hartlep, Illinois State University

Discussant

• Michael E. Jennings, The University of Texas - San Antonio