This study examines preservice teachers' conceptions of teaching mathematics using a social justice lens. Situated at a large, public, predominantly white institution in the southeast United States, where PSTs are not required to take a course on teaching diverse populations, participants were asked to respond to questions surrounding their…

To allow prospective teachers to see mathematics as a useful tool to make sense of the world we redesigned a university mathematics content course for prospective elementary school teachers in the context of exploring income distribution in the United States. This allowed the prospective teachers to learn mathematics in a meaningful context and…

Predominantly white pre-service teachers typically lack awareness of white supremacist patriarchal (WSP) ideology as a system of thought and praxis. Yet, the prevalence of white people working as teachers alongside BIPOC students and families in urban contexts persists. These teachers' lack of understanding about the system that plagues the…

Teacher educators have sought to understand the challenges associated with teaching predominantly White teacher candidates about race, racism, power, and privilege and preparing them to teach and act for racial and social justice. In this article, I build on this work by exploring (1) how White teacher candidates express race-consciousness upon…

Despite the necessary and important work occurring in both practice-based teacher education and within initiatives like "core practices," we need to push for new considerations about what kinds of knowledge must be attended to within the "core" framework. By drawing on anti-oppressive pedagogy and positioning theory, this study…

The educational outcomes of critical pedagogy, especially the process of acquiring a critical consciousness, are frequently stated in the critical literature. Unfortunately, research illustrating the successful process of facilitating a critical consciousness among preservice teachers is limited. This research begins to address this significant…

Understanding the critical thought process of preservice teachers in an urban teaching environment is essential for the establishment of a social justice oriented teacher education curriculum. Utilizing artifacts taken from a preservice teacher education program, specifically monthly critically reflective teaching journals, four distinct thinking…

A central concern for teacher educators is preparing future teachers who are not just equity-oriented but are able to teach equitably. Focusing on core practices of effective teaching is a step in this direction, but not enough. The relational and cultural nature of learning requires a disposition towards inclusion and practices that disrupt…

We sought to describe how prospective educators' choices of collaborative, cooperative, or individualistic interactions with group members and their willingness to apply unstructured effort into group functioning explained their levels of stress and self-evaluations of cooperative skills. Students (n=149) working in intact cooperative groups…

This paper explores a pedagogical approach, autoethnography as praxis; a method to support white pre-service teachers in their process toward becoming accomplices for racial justice. In this qualitative study, students wrote three drafts of their autoethnography throughout a semester as part of a course assignment. They analyzed their lived…

Fear, or rather the recognition of and consequential "transcendence" of fear, is potentially a very powerful pedagogical tool--especially in educational settings that purport to strive for democratic teaching practices. In this study, secondary English teacher candidates (TCs) were encouraged to imagine the ways they could overcome fear…

Although it is argued that teachers of Color have the potential to improve the educational experiences and outcomes of historically marginalized communities of Color, little is known about the experiences and identities that shape their teacher preparation. Rather, there is a privileging of Whiteness in teacher education research and practice.…

This study explores the critical consciousness of preservice Social Studies teachers and how their pedagogical content knowledge affects their ability to disrupt dominant discourses when teaching economic concepts.

A quasi-experimental mixed-methods study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of an equity intervention on teacher candidates' understandings of school-based inequities. Three pre/post instruments were used to gauge the difference in participants' equity beliefs, skills, and knowledge. Treatment participants (N=35) were exposed to a…

The purpose of this study is to understand how a cohort of teaching residents' beliefs and articulations about teaching for social justice change over time from before entering residency to their first year of teaching. In doing so, we conduct an examination of their conceptions of and beliefs about teaching for social justice over multiple…