This study examines how one school's well-intentioned White teachers and students from diverse backgrounds--all of whom belong to their school's working groups created to address issues of diversity--conceptualize diversity. Utilizing a qualitative case study, the study shows a discrepancy between what teachers and students felt comfortable…

Our study uses post-qualitative methods to create vignettes of critical consciousness or dysconsciousness of five white, pre-service teachers (two featured here). These vignettes help us reevaluate the effectiveness of critical conscious-building pedagogy as well as our methods for assessing critical consciousness (or dysconsciousness) at a…