Social Justice and Transformative Learning: Unrealized Goal and Barriers in Teacher Education

• In Event: 42.054 - Raising Critical Consciousness: Disruptive Teaching Through Engagement

Abstract

This presentation responds to the questions: Why is the goal to prepare teachers to develop critical social justice consciousness and transformative learning unrealized in teacher education? How do we foreground a critical pedagogical and programmatic orientation toward social justice and transformative learning in teacher education? Drawing on multiple research lenses the author examines and deconstructs the impediments to realizing social justice and transformative learning in teacher education. Then the author conceptualizes a four-part, interrelated pedagogical framework for re-visioning effective multicultural teacher education practice that fosters preservice teachers’ critical social justice consciousness and transformative learning.

Author

• Omiunota N. Ukpokodu, University of Missouri - Kansas City