Becoming critical teacher educators : narratives of disruption, possibility, and praxis

The personal and professional are woven together in this collection of scholarly narratives by teacher educators who share their early critical experiences and model teaching practices to support continued resistance and possibilities in teacher education. Representing myriad contexts where teacher education takes place, the range of scholars included represent diverse racial, gendered, linguistic, economic, and ethnic intersectional perspectives. Each chapter suggests practical tools and encourages readers to reflect on their own journeys of becoming transformational teacher educators. This book adds an important dimension to the field with a new and generative approach to the introduction of critical literacies and pedagogies, and offers a potentially powerful way to explore theory, methodology, and social issues. Readers will enjoy the compelling storytelling of these powerful and vulnerable memoirs. Becoming Critical Teacher Educators- Front Cover 1 Becoming Critical Teacher Educators 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Foreword by H. Richard Milner, IV 11 References 12 Preface 13 Origin of the Book 14 Organization of the Book 14 References 16 Chapter 1: Introduction 18 Critical Pedagogy for Teacher Education 18 Conceptual Framework 18 References 24 Chapter 2: Critical Social Theory as Lived Experience: A Media Pedagogue in the Making 28 Always Becoming: My Journey to a Critical Stance 29 Transitioning to the English Education Classroom 32 The Import of Critical Media Literacy in School Classrooms 33 Note 35 References 35 Chapter 3: On Becoming a Freirian Educator 37 Note 44 References 44 Chapter 4: Living Well Where We Are: An Educator’s Evolving Critical Pedagogy of Place 46 Fighting Injustices 46 Discovering a World of Injustices 47 Encouraging Students to Challenge Injustices 50 Hope and Possibility 53 References 54 Chapter 5: Learning to Interrogate and Resist the Data Culture in Literacy Education 55 The Need for Critical Data Literacy 56 Childhood Experiences with Race and Class Disparities 58 Fostering Critical Data Literacy in Teacher Education 62 Concluding Thoughts 66 References 66 Chapter 6: Heeding the Unbearable in Teacher Education: Visceral Literacies as Critical Possibility and Praxis 68 References 77 Chapter 7: A Teacher Educator’s Plea to Prepare Preservice Teachers for Family/School Collaboration 78 Witnessing Injustices 78 Early School Experiences 79 Family Influences 79 Becoming an Educator with a Focus onStudents and Families 80 Preparing Preservice Teachers for Family/School Collaboration: On the Shoulders of Teacher Educators 82 A Pedagogy of Mutual Respect: Teachers as Researchers and Parent Stories as Data 82 Concluding Comments 85 Note 85 References 85 Chapter 8: Continuities of Privilege and Marginality across Space and Time: Critical Autobiographical Narrative in Teacher Education 87 Who Was Granny? 89 Critical Autobiographical Writing as Counternarrative and Critical Witnessing 90 Welcome to the Department of Education, Philosophy, and Pedagogy 92 How Did She Do It? 92 Critical Autobiographical Narratives in Teacher Education 93 Who Am I? 94 Renarrating Family Histories 94 My Work with Teacher Candidates 95 WHO AM I? 96 Notes 99 References 99 Chapter 9: Pathways to Critical Literacy: A Memoir of History, Geography and Chance 102 References 112 Chapter 10: Becoming an Agent of Change: A Critical Service Pedagogy in Teacher Education 114 Becoming 114 Critical Service Pedagogy 119 Critical Service Pedagogy As Social Justice Teacher Education 121 References 124 Chapter 11: From Bending to Breaking Rules: Disrupting Teacher Preparation with CRT and Nonviolence 125 From Bending to Breaking Rules 125 Race as Contradiction 125 References 133 Chapter 12: From Man–Boy Love to Self-Love Pedagogy: Ethical Flirtations with Authority 135 Coming to Man–Boy Love: An Unpleasurable Experience 135 Woman Seeking a New Kind of Love 137 Feminism: Working It 138 Construction of Knowledge: Make it Mutual 139 Updating the Relationship Status 140 References 142 Chapter 13: Toward Redemption and Reconciliation: Ecologically Minded Teacher Education 143 Searching for Redemption and Reconciliation 144 Finding Progressive Christianity 146 Digging in the Soil 147 Preparing Ecologically Minded Teachers 148 Conclusion 150 Notes 150 References 150 Chapter 14: Choosing to Become a Cross-Racial Ally 152 Friday, November 24, 2012 152 Building Trust While Dealing with Conflict 154 References 160 Chapter 15: Becoming a Critical English Teacher Educator When #Blacklivesmatter 161 Who Am I? 161 Becoming 162 On Being 167 On Reflecting 168 Note 169 References 169 Chapter 16: “Who Are Your Influences?” Interrupting the Tidy Production of Teachers of Reading 171 Early Years 171 Schooling 173 Education 173 Path to the Present 175 Examples from My Work 176 References 180 Chapter 17: Farewell to Authority: Learning to Disrupt Relationships among Teachers, Learners, and Knowledge 182 Manza-what? 182 Disruption in Room 308 184 Toward a Democratic Syllabus 185 Democratic Syllabus as Pedagogy 186 More Tensions and Questions than Answers 188 References 190 Chapter 18: All About That Bass: Cultivating Socially-Just Literacy Teachers through Multicultural Literature and Multimodality 192 Becoming a Sociocritical Literacy Teacher Educator: Reading the World and Word 193 Multimodality Meets Multicultural Youth Literature: Enacting a Hybridized, Sociocritical Pedagogy 199 Developing Socially Just Teachers through Multicultural, Multimodal Texts: The Journey Continues 201 References 203 Chapter 19: My Critical Literacy of Diagnosis: Teaching Reading Assessment in Teacher Education 204 Literacy Autobiography 204 Moving through Discourses of Disability Diagnosis 206 The Power of “Normal” 208 Teaching Reading Diagnosis and Remediation 209 References 212 Chapter 20: Learning to Plan, Planning to Learn: A Co-Narrative about the HTPE toward Disrupting Teacher Education 213 Discovering the Need for Disruption 213 Disruption of Praxis through Noticing Student Needs 215 Using the HTPE to Refine our Praxis 217 Praxis 220 References 221 Chapter 21: Possibility and Praxis in Teacher Education 222 How We Became Critical Teacher Educators 223 What We Do as Critical Teacher Educators 226 Praxis 227 Possibility—Considering a Critical Pedagogy for Teacher Education 229 Possibility 231 References 232 Notes on Contributors 233 Index 234 Foreword by H. Richard Milner, IV Preface 1. Introduction. Julie Ellison Justice and F. Blake Tenore 2. Critical Social Theory as Lived Experience: A media pedagogue in the making. Ashley Boyd 3. On Becoming a Freirian Educator. Anna Christina da Silva Iddings 4. Living Well Where We Are: An Educator’s Evolving Critical Pedagogy of Place. Mark Davies 5. Learning to Interrogate and Resist the Data Culture in Literacy Education. Dennis S. Davis 6. Heeding the Unbearable in Teacher Education: Visceral Literacies as Critical Possibility and Praxis. Elizabeth Dutro 7. A Teacher Educator’s Plea to Prepare Preservice Teachers for Family/School Collaboration. Patricia A. Edwards 8. Continuities of Privilege and Marginality Across Space and Time: Critical Autobiographical Narrative in Teacher Education.Lara J. Handsfield 9. Pathways to Critical Literacy: A Memoir of History, Geography and Chance. Hilary Janks 10. Becoming an Agent of Change: A Critical Service Pedagogy in Teacher Education. Julie Ellison Justice 11. From Bending to Breaking Rules: Disrupting Teacher Preparation with CRT and Nonviolence.Judson C. Laughter 12. From Man-Boy Love to Self-Love Pedagogy: Ethical Flirtations with Authority. Christine Mallozzi 13. Toward Redemption and Reconciliation: Ecologically Minded Teacher Education. Scott Morrison 14. Choosing to Become a Cross-Racial Ally. Jennifer Obidah 15. Becoming a Critical English Teacher Educator When #Blacklivesmatter. Amber Jean-Marie Pabon 16. "Who are Your Influences?" Interrupting the Tidy Production of Teachers of Reading. Patrick Shannon 17. Farewell to Authority: Learning to Disrupt Relationships among Teachers, Learners, and Knowledge. F. Blake Tenore 18. All About That Bass: Cultivating Socially-Just Literacy Teachers through Multicultural Literature and Multimodality. Jennifer D. Turner 19. My Critical Literacy of Diagnosis: Teaching Reading Assessment in Teacher Education. Susan W. Woolley 20. Learning to Plan, Planning to Learn: A Co-Narrative of the HTPE Disrupting Teacher Education. Emily Yanisko and Sherick Hughes 21. Possibility and Praxis in Teacher Education. Julie Ellison Justice and F. Blake Tenore Contributors Index