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What will we teach the teachers? Grappling with racism in a professional development setting

Authors: Lenora Crabtree, Preethi Titu

Published in: Cultural Studies of Science Education | Issue 3/2022

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This paper is a result of the reflection on Kristin Searle, Colby Tofel-Grehl, Andrea Hawkman, Mario Suarez, and Beth MacDonald’s paper, “Whiteness at work in the elementary classroom: a case study,” which follows a White male teacher as he is trained to employ an integrated technology unit that connects science, social studies, and language arts. The need for teachers to integrate content in culturally relevant ways is imperative as schools become increasingly diverse. Our engagement with this paper left us to question whether the professional development program was designed to support Mr. Anderson’s (and other teachers’) sociopolitical consciousness and subsequently his (and their) capacity to enact Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. In this forum, we offer grappling with racism as a foundational practice for teacher education as a way to interrupt dysconsciousness among science education researchers and teacher educators, as well as those with whom we learn.

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Title: What will we teach the teachers? Grappling with racism in a professional development setting
Authors: Lenora Crabtree
Preethi Titu
Publication date: 09-04-2022
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Cultural Studies of Science Education / Issue 3/2022
Print ISSN: 1871-1502
Electronic ISSN: 1871-1510
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-022-10119-2

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