Through the fire : from intake to credential : teacher candidates share their experiences through narrative / by Cleveland Hayes, Kenneth Fashing-Varner, Hillary Eisworth, Kimberly White-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayes, Cleveland, author.

Fashing-Varner, Kenneth, author.

Eisworth, Hillary, author.

White-Smith, Kimberly, author.

Series:

Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action 18.

Constructing knowledge : curriculum studies in action, 2213-722X ; volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Training of--United States.

Teachers.

Teachers--Training of--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Sense, [2018]

Summary:

By applying an auto-ethnographic approach in this volume to share and explore the experiences of prospective teachers as they navigate the preparation and credentialing processes of teacher education, we – as those who have gone before the future educators in this text and those who will come behind them, gain first hand insights from these young women and men about what it means and how to better prepare prospective educators to become a teacher against a backdrop of historical inequities in schooling and prepared for the multi-culturally diverse classrooms of today. Teacher educators, school and community leaders, and others committed to pushing toward more equitable social domains and forms of living and learning hence would do well to take up the opportunity provided in this text to learn from the narratives included in this volume and those of other teacher candidates; indeed, the narratives of teacher candidates herein and elsewhere are, in part, reflections of ourselves as teacher educators and evaluations of our work in teacher education and the professional preparation of those who will carry on our professions after us and for rising generations. What we as teacher educators teach, or think we are teaching, in teacher preparation courses may, or may not, be what prospective teachers are learning about being a teacher and successful teaching and learning for all learners, particularly those students historically underserved. Each of the prospective educators who share their narratives in this volume are striving to become critical educators capable of promoting equitable educational and social opportunities, outcomes, and experiences for all learners. While their journeys are each distinctive and unique to them personally, the teacher candidates who share their narratives in this volume highlight some of the challenges and opportunities they have encountered in teacher preparation courses to learn about the functioning of social structures that sustain society’s existing hierarchies and develop the skills and knowledge requisite to identify, implement, and assess critical learning strategies aimed at challenging inequities and promoting more inclusive forms of education. Specifically, these future teachers included in this volume are sharing with us, their readers, their attempts at learning to unhook from Whiteness and to disrupt the pernicious and historical school-to-prison pipeline that has long existed in the US between the nation’s prison system and schools serving learners and their families and communities identified as racially not White, economically poor, and otherwise not members of the White, middle-class, primary English speaking, heterosexual, patriarchal mainstream.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Contents / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Foreword / Brenda G. Harris

About the Artist / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Notes on the Authors / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

What Is Going on in Teacher Education in the United States / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Tried and True / Geoffrey Jaynes

Bianca / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Cecilia / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Covington / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

George / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Hillary / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Jasmime / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Ximaroa / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Miquel / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Owen / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Vijay / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Wade / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Mary / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Kaitlyn / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Lauren and Patricia / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Jordan and Catherine / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Through the Fire / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith

Afterword / Kerri Tobin

Back Matter

References / Cleveland Hayes , Kenneth Fasching-Varner , Hillary Eisworth and Kimberly White-Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

90-04-38819-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004388192 DOI