Book chapter
OutCasting Teacher Education: Abolishing Caste-Maintaining Practices in Teacher Education Programs
Reconceptualizing Social Justice in Teacher Education, pp 151-170
01 Jan 2022
Abstract
The preparation of urban educators continues to gain widespread attention and a sense of urgency (Acosta, 2018). As urban communities become increasingly diverse, the demographic composition of students and teachers continues to be culturally incongruent (Easton-Brooks, 2019; Rogers-Ard, 2012). Green (2015) projected that 55% of students would be students of color by 2020; however, close to 82% of teachers are White females, while only 12% are Black (Osei-Twumasi & Pinetta, 2019). With a student demographic landscape that is outpacing the diversity of teachers, it is imperative that urban pre-service teachers are trained to develop equity and critical pedagogies (Esposito et al., 2012; Ladson-Billings, 1994). Moreover, teacher education programs often lack diversity and similar critical dispositions, neglecting to critically interrogate race, power, and privilege in their policies, programs, curriculum, and teacher educators (Allen et al., Teachers College Record, 119(1), 1–26, 2017). These challenges have been exacerbated in the context of the two pandemics: COVID-19 and the clarion call for racial justice. Drawing inspiration from Isabel Wilkerson’s award-winning book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, this chapter interrogates the implications of caste for education and teacher education more specifically. Wilkerson (Caste: The origins of our discontents. Random House, 2020) contends: “A world without caste would set everyone free” (p. 388). What would teacher education without caste “out-caste” do or be for everyone, for the collective? The chapter implements a critical race theory analysis of current teacher education models, examines how they may promote and solidify caste in urban teacher education, and contours an anti-racist framework with implications for teacher education programs.
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- Title
- OutCasting Teacher Education: Abolishing Caste-Maintaining Practices in Teacher Education Programs
- Creators
- Ayana Allen-Handy - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Reconceptualizing Social Justice in Teacher Education, pp 151-170
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing; Cham
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85159494115
- Other Identifier
- 991021893595404721