ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|9 pages

Critical Social Theory as Lived Experience

A Media Pedagogue in the Making

chapter 4|9 pages

Living Well Where We Are

An Educator’s Evolving Critical Pedagogy of Place

chapter 6|10 pages

Heeding the Unbearable in Teacher Education

Visceral Literacies as Critical Possibility and Praxis

chapter 8|15 pages

Continuities of privilege and marginality across space and time

Critical Autobiographical Narrative in Teacher Education

chapter 9|12 pages

Pathways to Critical Literacy

A Memoir of History, Geography, and Chance

chapter 10|11 pages

Becoming an Agent of Change

A Critical Service Pedagogy in Teacher Education

chapter 11|10 pages

From Bending to Breaking Rules

Disrupting Teacher Preparation with CRT and Nonviolence

chapter 12|8 pages

From Man–Boy Love to Self-Love Pedagogy

Ethical Flirtations with Authority

chapter 13|9 pages

Toward Redemption and Reconciliation

Ecologically Minded Teacher Education

chapter 16|11 pages

“Who are your influences?”

Interrupting the Tidy Production of Teachers of Reading

chapter 17|10 pages

Farewell to Authority

Learning to Disrupt Relationships among Teachers, Learners, and Knowledge

chapter 18|12 pages

All About That Bass

Cultivating Socially-Just Literacy Teachers through Multicultural Literature and Multimodality

chapter 19|9 pages

My Critical Literacy of Diagnosis

Teaching Reading Assessment in Teacher Education

chapter 20|9 pages

Learning to Plan, Planning to Learn

A Co-Narrative about the HTPE toward Disrupting Teacher Education