Teacher preparation gaps allow racism to reproduce through early childhood classrooms

Evidence

Racism frequently persists in schools because often preservice teachers, 85 percent White middle class, are not well prepared to work against it (Wynter-Hoyte, Muller, Bryan, Boutte, & Long, 2019), lack critical consciousness, and a habit of mind to see how racism permeates schools and society (Boutte, 2016; King, 1991). Racism is perpetuated as new teachers join colleagues not focused on equity in curriculum and instruction (Asante, 2017; Sleeter 2016), and not taught to interrupt racist trends and therefore pass racist ideologies to children in EC classrooms. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 243

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Children’s apprenticeship-of-observation transmits teacher bias along with pedagogy; Everyday teacher bias and structural school resourcing interact to accumulate racial disadvantage. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 423; Teacher use determines whether children act on arbitrary color categories (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Teacher use determines whether children act on arbitrary color categories #expands (0.78)
• Everyday teacher bias and structural school resourcing interact to accumulate racial disadvantage. #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 423