ERIC Number: EJ1366262
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-2379-3406
EISSN: EISSN-2379-3414
Mapping Socio-Spatial Constructions of Normalcy: Whiteness and Ability in Teacher Candidates' Educational Trajectories
Beneke, Margaret R.
Whiteness and Education, v6 n1 p92-113 2021
In this paper I present a qualitative study in which I investigated how socio-spatial dimensions of schooling influenced the ways four, white, nondisabled teacher candidates made meaning of whiteness and ability throughout their educational journeys. Drawing on literature exploring the socio-spatial dimensions of power and whiteness and ability as property, I employed qualitative mapping to analyse how white, nondisabled teacher candidates appropriated conceptions of normalcy. Data reveal how whiteness and ability were constructed, normalised, and deployed as resources throughout teacher candidates' P-12 schooling and teacher preparation programmes. I assert that such an analysis can inform teacher education programs in dismantling these intersecting ideologies.
Descriptors: White Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Racial Attitudes, Power Structure, Critical Race Theory, Ability, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Intersectionality, Racism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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