44.040a - How Can Equity-Oriented Teacher Educators Respond to Corporatization? A Research and Resistance Roundtable

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This working group roundtable will bring together, for the first time, organizers of the opt-out movement and teacher educators from both across the country and across the fields of early childhood education, elementary education, and secondary education in order to engage interdisciplinary perspectives on the corporatization of teacher preparation. The roundtable will provide a forum for participants to compare current research in their respective fields and share viewpoints from multiple perspectives on this phenomenon. Using a critical consciousness lens and drawing from standpoint theory, participants will actively collaborate in this session to determine promising research and resistance directions for equity-oriented teacher educators seeking to engage in this work. Emphasis will be placed on advocating for the interests of marginalized students.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 10: Teaching and Teacher Education Policy and Research

Chair

• Deborah A. Bieler, University of Delaware

Papers

• It Has Come to This: Direct Action for Teacher Educators - Deborah A. Bieler, University of Delaware; Noah Asher Golden, Chapman University; Alison G Dover, California State University - Fullerton

• Competency-Based Education and the Gig Economy - Morna McDermott, Towson University

• Reclaiming Teacher Education: Preparing Critically Conscious Teachers to Resist Corporate Education Reform - Denisha Jones, Trinity Washington University