In this edited book sponsored by the ATE Diversity Committee, we invited teacher educators to provide their stories from the field of education, related to antiracist instruction in teacher education. The stories took the form of narratives and counternarratives. The engaging ideas, activities, and suggestions throughout provide readers with much content to reflect on and apply in their teacher education classrooms and programs. Education advocates and policy makers would also be interested in hearing the perspectives of these educators, as they bring to light much information that is not clear through just the numbers or quantitative statistics. These in-depth rich descriptions provide high quality information that would be beneficial to educators in various settings and subject areas, as this is an antiracist teacher education is an issue that goes across all areas in education.
Gilda Martinez-Alba, EdD, is the Assistant Dean in the College of Education at Towson University. She focuses her scholarship and service initiatives on diversity, equity, and inclusion with accessible actions, such as asset-based literacy instruction for multilingual learners integrating technology and social-emotional learning as well as advocating for underrepresented students in the field of education. Luis Javier Penton Herrera, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, and a Coordinator of the Graduate TESOL Certificate at The George Washington University.His scholarship revolves around topics related to antiracism, such as indigenous epistemologies and decolonizing research methodologies. Afra Ahmed Hersi, PhD, is the Interim Dean of the School of Education at Loyola University Maryland and Professor in Literacy Teacher Education. She has published research in the areas of immigration and education, literacy, language development for bilingual learners, culturally and linguistically responsive practice, and teacher education.
Foreword - Preparing Teachers to be Counterstorytellers and Antiracists by Juan A. Rios Vega Introduction Becoming Together: Interrogating Antiracism in Teacher Education through Critical Self-Study by Courtney Baker, Melissa Troudt, Sara Donaldson, Robin Anderson & Dawn Woods Antiracist Praxis in Teacher Education by Rosemary Hendriks Inoculating Against COVID-19 Disconnection within the White Dominant Spaces of Teacher Education and Fashioning Liberation Along the Way: Testimonio Inquiry as Antiracist Teacher Preparation Re-centering Knowledge and Power by Mia Sosa-Provencio, Ybeth Iglesias, Jackie Cusimano, Zachary Ramsey, and Helena Omana Zapata Spilling the Tea: Stories of Confronting and Addressing Racism in ESOL Classrooms by Manuel De Jesus Gomez Portillo, Ethan Trinh, and Luis Javier Penton Herrera Embracing Community, Disrupting Isolation: The Importance of Relationships and Land in Antiracist Teacher Education by Ionah M.E. Scully and D. Romo It's About the Relationship: Deepening Antiracist Educational Praxis with Teacher Candidates Through the Graduate Curriculum by Pamela M. Jones and Jessica G. Wontropski Antiracist Teacher Construction Zone: Journeying with Teacher Candidates by Maria J. Franshaw and Shannon E. Prince
