A critically conscious analysis of institutionalized racism in teacher education: Imagining anti-racist teacher preparation spaces

Authors

Tatiana Joseph
Jennifer Brownson
Kristine Lize
Elizabeth Drame, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeFollow
Laura Owens

Keywords

Keywords – teacher preparation, school of education, structural racism, anti-racist practice

Document Type

Article in Response to Controversy

Theme

Teaching for Social Justice in a Highly Politicized Historical Moment

Abstract

Teacher education scholars serving five different teacher education license programs came together to collectively examine this question: What would it look like if a college of education took on the work of revealing and dismantling structural racism? Using Critical Consciousness theory, we analyzed how structural racism is embedded in teacher education on both a macro systems level and a micro program level. First, we discuss what we know about how institutionalized racism is prevalent within teacher preparation spaces. Then, we take a focused look at some of our programs within our own school of education. More specifically, we explored both how structural racism showed up in our individual programs and how we have each attempted to disrupt it in the areas of student recruitment, admissions, retention, faculty diversity, curriculum experiences, and exit assessments/criteria. We end with a potential roadmap for furthering our efforts to disrupt structural racism that emerged from our lessons learned.

Genre/Form

articles

Recommended Citation

Joseph, Tatiana; Brownson, Jennifer; Lize, Kristine; Drame, Elizabeth; and Owens, Laura (2022) "A critically conscious analysis of institutionalized racism in teacher education: Imagining anti-racist teacher preparation spaces," Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 15: No. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol15/iss1/2

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Racism--Study and teaching (Higher)--Wisconsin; Anti-racism--Study and teaching (Higher)--Wisconsin; Race--Study and teaching (Higher)--Wisconsin; Racism in education--Wisconsin; Teachers--Training of--Wisconsin

Rights

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Geographic Coverage

Wisconsin

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

Type

Text