Title: Let’s Not Go “Back to Normal”: A Humanizing Vision for Supporting Teacher Candidates of Color

• In Event: Supporting Teachers of Color and Dismantling Institutional Racism in Education

Abstract

This paper represents a practice of inquiry for teacher educators to examine their own pedagogies in support of teacher candidates of color. It aims to develop methods for interrogating traditional modes of inquiry and pedagogy in education. We use a critical approach to collective memory work and the emerging framework of critical game theory to make sense of supporting teacher candidates of color as they navigate the white-supremacist system of education, both in their own experiences as students and as teacher candidates, engaging with the ongoing racialized violence in the school systems in which they are embarking as future teachers.

Presenters

• Keitha-Gail Martin-Kerr, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Colleen H. Clements, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities