How Are We Hegemonic Insider-Outsiders? A Phenomenological Exploration of Justice-Oriented Teacher Education Practice

• In Event: Toward a Complex Understanding: Disrupting Essentialization in Teaching and Teacher Education

Abstract

This study qualitative explores how a hegemonic insider-outsider is produced as individual preservice teachers navigate various forms and levels of relationships, dominant discourses, oppressions, and marginalization. This study finds that the phenomenon of hegemonic insider-outsider is constructed in multiple ways and on multiple levels as it is produced at the intersections of individual students’ positionalities, social systems, and structures. Nonetheless, racism and white supremacy always reside where the phenomenon is produced and provoked. This study accepts educational responsibility through its interrogation of the phenomenon regarding how to prepare and support students and teachers to be social actors who are accountable with space and practice they (can) take up as well as who care for others.

Author

• Younkyung Hong, Ball State University