Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions

Programs, Policies, and Social Justice

Edited by Emery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney

Rutgers University Press

Winner of the 2018 AERA Division K Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award

The first of its kind, Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions brings together innovative work from the family of institutions known as minority-serving institutions: Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions. The book moves beyond a singular focus on teacher racial diversity that has characterized scholarship and policy work in this area. Instead, it pushes for scholars to consider that racial diversity in teacher education is not simply an end in itself but is, a means to accomplish other goals, such as developing justice-oriented and asset-based pedagogies.

Petchauer and Mawhinney's Teacher Education across MSIs is the first book to include the voices of MSI scholars on the topic of teacher education at MSIs. These institutions are vital to ensuring a diverse teaching force in the U.S. Marybeth Gasman, Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Director, Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions

With wide-ranging implications for higher education policy, Teacher Education across Minority Serving Institutions is honest and optimistic about transforming teaching practice through MSI teacher prep programs. Its grounded perspectives, intelligent analyses, and compelling narratives make this book an insightful read and a valuable contribution to higher education literature.’
Ivory Toldson, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Negro Education and Former Director, White House Initiative on HBCUs

EMERY PETCHAUER is an associate professor of English and teacher education at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, where he also coordinates the English education program. He is the author of Hip-Hop Culture in College Students’ Lives.

LYNNETTE MAWHINNEY is an associate professor of urban education at The College of New Jersey in Ewing. She is the author of We Got Next: Urban Education and the Next Generation of Black Teachers.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions

Emery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney

Part I. Community Connections and Justice-Oriented Teacher Education

Chapter 1. The Promise of Equity: Preparing Future Teachers to be Socially Just Educators

Mae S. Chaplin and Annette M. Daoud

Chapter 2. Learning from the Community: Innovative Partnerships That Inform Tribal College Teacher Education Programming

Danielle Lansing

Chapter 3. Teacher Preparation for Our Communities: Building Co-teaching Collaborative Schools from the Ground Up

Cheryl A. Franklin Torrez, Jonathan Brinkerhoff, and Irene Welch

Chapter 4. From Our Own Gardens: Growing Our Own Bilingual Teachers in the Southwest

Sandra Browning