ERIC Number: EJ1321120
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4871
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On the Mis-Education of Teachers of Color: A Letter to Teacher Educators
Journal of Teacher Education, v73 n1 p66-80 Jan-Feb 2022
Although teacher education researchers have long claimed their commitment to successfully preparing teachers to educate students of Color--a growing majority in U.S. schools--notably absent from their attempts are the voices of teachers of Color. This silence often results in pathological portrayals, positioning teachers of Color as the problem while obscuring the pervasive, problematic, and harmful Whiteness of teaching and teacher education. In this context, inspired by James Baldwin's letter-essays and centering truthtelling as theoretical framework, eight tenured New York City public school teachers of Color and a teacher educator of Color engaged in collective analysis of a truthtelling exercise focused on what practitioners and institutions of teacher education can and should learn from teachers of Color to develop an antidote to the overwhelming Whiteness of teaching and teacher education, which has been shown to disproportionately disadvantage students of Color. Herein, we offer a composite counter-story--a letter to White teacher educators and, in fact, teacher educators of any racial identification who are in any way aligned with protecting and upholding Whiteness--revisiting our own nuanced memories of becoming and being teachers, unveiling teacher education's epistemic violence, and issuing a call to action. [The Teacher of Color Collective co-authored this article.]
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Educators, Public School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, White Teachers, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination, Sense of Community, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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