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Reading, writing, and racism : disrupting whiteness in teacher education and in the classroom / Bree Picower.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Picower, Bree, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism in education--United States.
- Racism in education.
- Teachers--Training of--Social aspects.
- Teachers--Training of.
- United States.
- Discrimination in education--United States.
- Discrimination in education.
- Teachers--Training of--Social aspects--United States.
- Teachers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In #CurriculumSoWhite, educator Bree Picower examines modern examples of racist curricula that have gone viral to demonstrate how whiteness is entrenched in schools and teacher education programs. When racist curriculum "goes viral" on social media it is typically dismissed as an isolated incident from a bad teacher. Picower, however, holds that racist curriculum isn't an anomaly. It's a systemic problem that reflects how whiteness is embedded and reproduced in education. Drawing on her experience teaching and developing the Newark Teacher Project--a project that pairs pre-service teachers students with mentors who focus on social justice and antiracist professional development--she demonstrates how individual teacher's ideology of race, consciously or unconsciously, shapes how they teach race in the classroom and reinforce racial hierarchies in the younger generation. She argues that white teachers must reframe their understanding about race in order to advance racial justice, and this must begin in teacher education programs. With a focus on institutional strategies, Picower shows how racial justice can be built into programs across the teacher education pipeline--from admission to induction. By examining the who, what, why and how of racial justice teacher education, she provides radical possibilities for transforming teacher education.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Curricular tools of whiteness
- The iceberg : racial ideology and curriculum
- Reframing understandings of race within teacher education
- Disrupting whiteness in teacher education
- Humanizing racial justice in teacher education.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 02, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Picower, Bree. Reading, writing, and racism
- ISBN:
- 9780807033715
- 0807033715
- Publisher Number:
- 40030397523
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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