Transformative Teacher Education
Disrupting Pedagogy, Practice, and Ideology to Forge Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education
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At a time when diversity, equity, and inclusion in education face unprecedented challenges, this groundbreaking volume brings together the collective journeys of over 20 faculty members from across Pennsylvania. Through vivid storytelling and practical strategies, Transformative Teacher Education explores how educators are embedding Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education (CRSE) into teacher preparation, challenging traditional approaches and affirming that justice must remain central to the mission of teaching.
With chapters grounded in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, Targeted Universalism, and CRSE frameworks, Transformative Teacher Education offers both reflection and actionable guidance for educators, policymakers, and anyone who believes that teaching is political, transformative, and rooted in love and liberation.
Discover how policy, resistance, and solidarity shape the future of teacher education—and why culturally sustaining practice is essential for every classroom.
INTRODUCTION; Donna-Marie Cole, Juliet Curci, and Luca Poxon
- Chapter 1. Origins of CRSE in Pennsylvania and the Community of Practice; Donna-Marie Cole, Juliet Curci, Kelly M. McGinn, and Luca Poxon
- Section 1a. Making Sense of Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education
- Chapter 2. What Happens When You Mandate a Revolution? Navigating Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education; Edwin Mayorga and Jennifer Bradley
- Chapter 3. From Playground to Pedagogy: How My Lived Experiences Cultivated Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Educational Practice; Rochelle Peterson-Ansari
- Chapter 4. Moments Worth Pondering: Critically Storying to Find Culturally Sustaining Ways Forward; Ashley Patterson and Emily Wender
- Chapter 5. Swimming in Rip Tides: A Critical Race Feminist Analysis of Resistance to Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education Competencies in Teacher Education; Amber Jean-Marie Pabon
- Section 1b. Reflection Questions and Activities
- Section 2a. System-Level Implementation of Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education
- Chapter 6. Insights on Implementing Anti-Racist and Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Practices in Higher Education; Angela N. Campbell and Ronald W. Whitaker, II
- Chapter 7. A Dean and Faculty "Doing the Work" of CRSE: How We Built a Wall and a Plan to Deconstruct It; Amy Gratch Hoyle
- Chapter 8. Building a Culture of CRSE: Lessons Learned from Millersville University's Implementation Journey; Miriam Marguerita Gomez Witmer, Abdulsalami Ibrahim, and Aileen Hower
- Chapter 9. Nurturing Growth in Teacher Preparation: Cultivating Social-Emotional Skills for Culturally Relevant Teaching; Anna Arlotta-Guerrero
- Chapter 10. Leading Program-Level Change: Reflections on the Development of a CRSE-aligned Fieldwork Rubric; Christopher Pupik Dean and Tawanna Jones
- Section 2b. Reflection Questions and Activities
- Section 3a. Course-Level Implementation of Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education
- Chapter 11. Understanding and Embedding Culturally Relevant Teaching through the Use of CRSE Competencies at a Historically Black University; Teresa Powell and Shalander “Shelly” Samuels
- Chapter 12. Learning Duet: Navigating a Professor’s Reflection with Student Voice when Integrating CRSE Competencies into a Secondary Education Methods Course; Beth Rajan Sockman
- Chapter 13. Bridging the Gap: Transforming an Early Literacy Methods Course with Sustained Culturally Relevant Practices; Michelle J. Sobolak
- Chapter 14. The Realities of Imperfect Field Placements: Fostering Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education in Pre-Service Field Experiences; Sarah Anne Eckert
- Chapter 15. Welcome or Watch Out! The Role of the Syllabus in Setting Up an Inclusive and Culturally Relevant Student Course Experience; Caroline DiPipi-Hoy
- Section 3b. Reflection Questions and Activities
- CONCLUSION; Juliet Curci, Donna-Marie Cole, and Luca Poxon
Donna-Marie Cole is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium (PEDC) and an Assistant Professor of Professional & Secondary Education and Instructional Design Technology at East Stroudsburg University.
Juliet Curci is the Assistant Dean of College Access and Persistence and Executive Director of the Center for Reimagining Excellence, Access and Transformation in Education (CREATE) with Temple University’s College of Education and Human Development.
Luca Poxon is Project Coordinator for Temple University’s Pennsylvania Teacher Education Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education (CRSE) Initiative.