On the Mis-Education of Teachers of Color: A Letter to Teacher Educators

Autor/in	Souto-Manning, Mariana
Titel	On the Mis-Education of Teachers of Color: A Letter to Teacher Educators
Quelle	In: Journal of Teacher Education, 73 (2022) 1, S.66-80 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Souto-Manning, Mariana)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4871
DOI	10.1177/00224871211057487
Schlagwörter	Minority Group Teachers; Teacher Educators; Public School Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; White Teachers; Racial Bias; Racial Discrimination; Sense of Community; Educational Practices; Educational Change; New York (New York) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Lehrerverhalten; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Racial bias; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsreform
Abstract	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.] (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01