Unpacking Survey Data within Critical Autoethnographic Study as a Quantitative Exercise
- 19 September 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in The Teacher Educator
Abstract
Teacher educators must embody an equity-focused orientation when working with preservice teachers. The article shares insights gained from a quantitative exercise as part of a critical autoethnography project. We situate this project as professional development for two teacher education researchers. The goals were to deepen knowledge of and adeptness with equity focused, culturally responsive teaching practices in teacher education and to investigate the usefulness of quantitative data for studying equity pedagogies in teacher education. Findings are shared as learning examples that spurred us to affirm the need for critical mixed methods and to inform next steps in our own teacher education research. We also describe the messiness and unease we grappled with throughout the exercise. This work contributes to the on-going call for purposeful and systematic teacher preparation programming informed by teacher educators’ deep knowledge of culturally responsive teaching practices as a pathway to realizing equity in education.Keywords
This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
- Aggressive and Tender Navigations: Teacher Educators Confront Whiteness in Their PracticeJournal of Teacher Education, 2010
- From Ideal to Practice and Back Again: Beginning Teachers Teaching for Social JusticeJournal of Teacher Education, 2009
- The Integration of Social Justice in Teacher EducationJournal of Teacher Education, 2005
- Preparing Culturally Responsive TeachersJournal of Teacher Education, 2002
- Placing Equity Front and CenterJournal of Teacher Education, 2000
- Multicultural StoriesUrban Education, 1997
- Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant PedagogyAmerican Educational Research Journal, 1995
- Best Practices in Teacher Preparation for Urban Schools: Lessons from the Multicultural Teacher Education LiteratureAction in Teacher Education, 1994
- Chapter 1: Multicultural Education: Historical Development, Dimensions, and PracticeReview of Research in Education, 1993
- Preservice Teacher Educators' Role in Programs for Beginning TeachersThe Elementary School Journal, 1989