Advancing Racial Equity in Extended Clinical Practice

Context Matters as Racialization Evolves: Exploring Bias in Preservice Teacher Responses to Children

“…This heightened awareness could result in an increased capacity to recognize their own deficit thinking and encourage a willingness to use supportive, authentic, and antiracist classroom instructional practices. This approach is important because many teachers begin their teaching careers with hesitancy about addressing race and ethnicity in their classrooms (Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, 2022; Roegman et al, 2023), which can result in an inability to engage in the appropriate race work that can positively impact their teaching and students’ learning (Ladson-Billings, 1994; Yuen, 2010).…”