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Taking a Knee to "Whiteness" in Teacher Education: An Abolitionist Stance

Sheaffer, Anne Auburn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1610484537076832

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Education, Cleveland State University, College of Education and Human Services.
In a qualitative narrative study of 11 urban teacher education faculty who teach courses that prepare teacher candidates for field immersions in metro-urban schools, I problematized “whiteness” by asking participants what it meant to them in the contexts of their work in contact zones were teacher candidates and K-12 students meet. The research was shaped as an abolitionist justice project (Tuck & Yang, 2018, p. 8) and considered how “whiteness” might be deconstructed and decentered in urban teacher education. Participants described whiteness as both fixed phenotype and historical and social construct which causes harm and which requires intervention. In scenarios where the harm of whiteness was mitigated for non-white K-12 students and teacher candidates, participants described themselves in supportive rather than authoritative educational roles. The study reflects upon what might constitute one or more forms of abolitionist praxis which might have the utility to dismantle systemic white supremacy as well as to cease and desist in the oppression of children.
Anne Galletta (Committee Chair)
158 p.
African American Studies; Education Policy; Educational Sociology; Ethnic Studies
Whiteness in Teacher Education; Abolition; Hypodescent; One-drop rule; Eugenics; Malignant Normalcy; Black Lives Matter; Colin Kaepernick; Decolonization; Contact Zone; Urban Education; Urban Teacher Education; Brionna Taylor; George Floyd

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  • Sheaffer, A. A. (2020). Taking a Knee to "Whiteness" in Teacher Education: An Abolitionist Stance [Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1610484537076832

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sheaffer, Anne. Taking a Knee to "Whiteness" in Teacher Education: An Abolitionist Stance . 2020. Cleveland State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1610484537076832.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sheaffer, Anne. "Taking a Knee to "Whiteness" in Teacher Education: An Abolitionist Stance ." Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1610484537076832

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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