Becoming Critical Teacher Educators

<p>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.</p> <p>Foreword by H. Richard Milner, IV</p><p>Preface</p><p>1. Introduction. Julie Ellison Justice and F. Blake Tenore</p><p>2. Critical Social Theory as Lived Experience: A media pedagogue in the making. Ashley Boyd</p><p>3. On Becoming a Freirian Educator. Anna Christina da Silva Iddings</p><p>4. Living Well Where We Are: An Educator’s Evolving Critical Pedagogy of Place. Mark Davies</p><p>5. Learning to Interrogate and Resist the Data Culture in Literacy Education. Dennis S. Davis</p><p>6. Heeding the Unbearable in Teacher Education: Visceral Literacies as Critical Possibility and Praxis. Elizabeth Dutro </p><p>7. A Teacher Educator’s Plea to Prepare Preservice Teachers for Family/School Collaboration. Patricia A. Edwards</p><p>8. Continuities of Privilege and Marginality Across Space and Time: Critical Autobiographical Narrative in Teacher Education.<b> </b>Lara J. Handsfield</p><p>9. Pathways to Critical Literacy: A Memoir of History, Geography and Chance. Hilary Janks</p><p>10. Becoming an Agent of Change: A Critical Service Pedagogy in Teacher Education. Julie Ellison Justice</p><p>11. From Bending to Breaking Rules: Disrupting Teacher Preparation with CRT and Nonviolence.<b> </b>Judson C. Laughter</p><p>12. From Man-Boy Love to Self-Love Pedagogy: Ethical Flirtations with Authority. Christine Mallozzi</p><p>13. Toward Redemption and Reconciliation: Ecologically Minded Teacher Education. Scott Morrison</p><p>14. Choosing to Become a Cross-Racial Ally. Jennifer Obidah</p><p>15. Becoming a Critical English Teacher Educator When #Blacklivesmatter. Amber Jean-Marie Pabon</p><p>16. "Who are Your Influences?" Interrupting the Tidy Production of Teachers of Reading. Patrick Shannon </p><p>17. Farewell to Authority: Learning to Disrupt Relationships among Teachers, Learners, and Knowledge. F. Blake Tenore</p><p>18. All About That Bass: Cultivating Socially-Just Literacy Teachers through Multicultural Literature and Multimodality. Jennifer D. Turner </p><p>19. My Critical Literacy of Diagnosis: Teaching Reading Assessment in Teacher Education. Susan W. Woolley </p><p>20. Learning to Plan, Planning to Learn: A Co-Narrative of the HTPE Disrupting Teacher Education<b>. </b>Emily Yanisko and Sherick Hughes</p><p>21. Possibility and Praxis in Teacher Education. Julie Ellison Justice and F. Blake Tenore</p><p>Contributors</p><p>Index</p>