Reading Representation 9
- ravensrobinson
- Oct 26, 2016
- 2 min read
Assigned Readings:
Dana & Yendol-Hoppey (2014) Ch.6: Find Your Findings: Data Analysis
Sensoy & DiAngelo (2015) Chapters 4-6:Oppression/Power; Privilege;Invisibility of Oppression
Assigned Essential Questions:
What are practices that I can use as a teacher educator to facilitate learning?
Reading Representation: "Crossing Paths"
This word search outlines terms, which may continually seep into the mindsets and practices of preservice teachers if the teacher educator is not aware of them:
-hate
-bigotry
-xenophobia
-misogyny
-discrimination
-racism
-bias
As a teacher educator, I believe it is important for me to facilitate learning for preservice teachers to recognize when in the profession of education, we, as teachers, must be conscious of how we teach our students impacts their mindsets beyond their experience in our classrooms. I appreciated the manner in which Sensoy and DiAngelo (2015) convey the dominant societal structures within the world and how we must be cognizant of them by initially outlining that oppression goes well beyond individuals, power means those in authority may consistently impose their ideas and interests on everyone, privilege is socially constructed to benefit members of the dominant group, and how oppression has been normalized into modern culture (pp.40; 52; 58; 81). In connection with my belief in encouraging experiential learning opportunities among my students, my goal is for students to understand how they are positioned within the world, in relation to constructs relating to the aforementioned outline of concepts from the aforementioned authors.
For example, in students reflection journals (from EDE 4504), many students have begun to identify and present their espoused beliefs through their writings, which reflects how they will teach their own students. Several times, as this word search also implies, I have had to carefully look through their amalgamation of ideas to analyze whether their beliefs supported one or more of the seven terms initially stated, beside the photograph. For right now, less than often, I have found several preservice teachers that may have not recognized they were supporting a denigrating mindset that could negatively impact the learning environment of their current and future students. From that data, I have been able to plan and implement simulated learning situations, in which students would be able to actively engage in building curriculum that ensured equity.
