To dismantle racism, make teacher education more inclusive

摘要

America's legacy of racism is insidious in teacher education. The systems that determine who becomes a teacher, how one becomes a teacher, what teachers learn, and what history and content they don't learn have been polluted by the codependency between our societal rules and our internal beliefs. Discriminatory policies and practices create biased beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes among those who stand to benefit from them, thereby reinforcing the policies and practices. Perhaps most insidiously, this process often occurs outside of conscious awareness, creating a societal pattern that, over time, becomes a legacy in and outside of education.