TY - JOUR
T1 - Swimming in and through whiteness
T2 - Antiracism in social studies teacher education
AU - Hawkman, Andrea M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 College and University Faculty Assembly of National Council for the Social Studies.
PY - 2020/7/2
Y1 - 2020/7/2
N2 - In this study, the author examined how five white preservice teachers in a secondary social studies teacher education program embodied, wrestled with, and resisted whiteness. Drawing on literature from whiteness studies and antiracism, this study utilized the analogy of a swimming pool to discuss how participants constructed their identities in relation to whiteness and antiracism. Findings indicated that participants demonstrated a fluidity of positioning as they invested, reinvested, and divested from whiteness. Despite prolonged attention to antiracism, participants struggled to disrupt whiteness and white supremacy throughout the duration of the study, which was demonstrative of the complex, interlocking relationship between whiteness and social studies education. Implications for antiracist social studies teacher education are also discussed.
AB - In this study, the author examined how five white preservice teachers in a secondary social studies teacher education program embodied, wrestled with, and resisted whiteness. Drawing on literature from whiteness studies and antiracism, this study utilized the analogy of a swimming pool to discuss how participants constructed their identities in relation to whiteness and antiracism. Findings indicated that participants demonstrated a fluidity of positioning as they invested, reinvested, and divested from whiteness. Despite prolonged attention to antiracism, participants struggled to disrupt whiteness and white supremacy throughout the duration of the study, which was demonstrative of the complex, interlocking relationship between whiteness and social studies education. Implications for antiracist social studies teacher education are also discussed.
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U2 - 10.1080/00933104.2020.1724578
DO - 10.1080/00933104.2020.1724578
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079423019
SN - 0093-3104
VL - 48
SP - 403
EP - 430
JO - Theory and Research in Social Education
JF - Theory and Research in Social Education
IS - 3
ER -