Critical Race Theory in Teacher Education

This important volume promotes the widespread application of Critical Race Theory (CRT) to better prepare K–12 teachers to bring an informed asset-based approach to teaching today’s highly diverse populations. Part I explores the tradition and longevity of CRT in teacher education. Part II, “Beyond Black and White,” expands CRT into new contexts, including LatCrit, AsianCrit, TribalCrit, QueerCrit, and BlackCrit. Part III looks beyond CRT to other epistemologies often dismissed in White conceptions of teacher preparation. Throughout the text, the authors collaborate across demographic lines to work together toward social justice and compassion. A closing chapter presents and synthesizes the lessons to be learned for teacher educators who want to prepare teachers to be agents of social change.

Book Features:

• Presents the history and theory of CRT and its applications to education and teacher preparation.
• Moves beyond a Black/White binary to consider applications of CRT across various groups, contexts, and identities in the U.S.
• Expands CRT to include Indigenous epistemologies from a global context.

Keonghee Tao Han is an associate professor at the University of Wyoming. Judson Laughter is an associate professor of English education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

“The authors present foundational knowledge that teachers must have before they are able to incorporate transformative social justice concepts in their curricula.“

—Teachers College Record

“Critical Race Theory in Teacher Education has put forth a challenge that requires all of our attentions. Not only does this work have important implications for teaching and learning in schools, it provides an epistemological and moral call for us to do justice work with a global framework that captures, reclaims, and restores our humanity.”
—From the Foreword by Tyrone C. Howard, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, The University of California, Los Angeles

“Han and Laughter have assembled an amazing group of scholars and practitioners merging the fields of Critical Race Theory and teacher education. This original work has taken us down some important pathways as we train educators to serve all communities and communities of color in particular. This is a remarkable, compelling, and insightful book.”
—Daniel Solorzano, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, The University of California, Los Angeles

Contents

Foreword by Tyrone C. Howard

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview
   Judson Laughter and Keonghee Tao Han

PART I: CRT AND TEACHER EDUCATION

Chapter 2. Race, Violence, and Teacher Education: An Overview of Critical Race Theory in Teacher Education
   DaVonna Graham, Adam Alvarez, Derric Heck, Jawanza Rand,  and Rich Milner

Chapter 3. Teacher Education, Diversity, and the Interest Convergence Conundrum: How the Demographic Divide Shapes Teacher Education
   Ashlee Anderson and Brittany Aronson

Chapter 4. "I See Whiteness": The Sixth Sense of Teacher Education
   Cheryl Matias and Jared Aldern

Chapter 5. Racial Literacy: Ebony and Ivory Perspectives of Race  in Two Graduate Courses
   Rebecca Rogers and Gwen McMillon

PART II: BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE

Chapter 6. Latino Critical Race Theory (LatCrit): A Historical and Compatible Journey from Legal Scholarship to Teacher Education
   Rachel Salas

Chapter 7. Exploring Asian American Invisibility in Teacher Education: The AsianCrit Account
   Keonghee Tao Han 

Chapter 8. Tribal Critical Race Theory
   Angela Jaime and Caskey Russell

Chapter 9. Queer Theory: QueerCrit
   Eric Teman

Chapter 10. The Normalization of Anti-Blackness in Teacher Education: A Call for Critical Race Frameworks
   Andrew Torres and Lamar Johnson

PART III: BEYOND CRT

Chapter 11. Ghanaian Epistemology in Teacher Education
   Adeline Borti

Chapter 12. Working Within a Contact Zone to Explore Indigenous Fijian Epistemology
   Cynthia Brock, Pauline Harris, and Ufemia Camaitoga

Chapter 13. Kenya's Education: An Eclectic Epistemological Collage
   Lydiah Nganga and John Kambutu

Chapter 14. Confucian Epistemology and Its Implications for Teacher Education
   Qi Sun and Reed Scull

Chapter 15. Critical Race Theory and Teacher Education: Toward Compassionate Coalitions for the Future?
   Andrew Peterson and Rob Hattam

About the Contributors

Index