(Re)membering in Order to Forget: Critical Race Counternarratives as a Tool to Disrupt Whiteness in Teacher Education

• In Event: Disrupting Whiteness after (Mis)Remembering the Past

Abstract

In this paper, we seek to respond to the dilemma of “lies my teacher told me” in our pre-service teacher education classroom. Using children’s literature and counternarratives, we seek to work against the “lies” they were told in school.  However, we also contend that these “lies” aren’t something only perpetuated in K-12, but carried into teacher education by teacher educators who are afraid (or uneven uninformed) to address issues of race, racism, and whiteness

Authors

• Brittany Aronson, Miami University

• Lateasha Meyers, Miami University

• Vanessa Winn, Miami University