IDTALK4ED LIVE EPISODE #63 - 'Disrupting Whiteness in Teacher Education' (Dr. Bree Picower)

BIO:
Dr. Bree Picower is an Associate Professor at Montclair State University in the College of Education and Human Development. She is the Co-Director of the Urban Teacher Residency, Newark Teacher Project and the Critical Urban Education Speaker Series with Dr. Tanya Maloney at MSU. Her newest book, Reading, Writing and Racism, is an unflinching examination of recent examples of viral racist curriculum and what it means for our educational institutions to take responsibility for addressing teachers’ understandings of race.
Along with co-editors Edwin Mayorga and Ujju Aggarwal, she released a 2nd edition of What’s Race Got To Do With It? How current school reform maintains racial and economic inequality. Her co-edited book with Rita Kohli, Confronting Racism in Teacher Education: Counternarratives of Critical Practice, examined patterns of institutional racism by amplifying the voices of non-dominant teacher educators. In her first book, Practice What You Teach: Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets, she explored a developmental continuum toward teacher activism.

[TheSCOOTERLAFORGE]

Kwame and Bree thank you. I learned so much from watching this. Knowledge is POWER!

[nickcraig]

This was nice to see before Ms. Picower came to my college. Thank you for the upload, very helpful. God bless!

[weirdhillstodieon]

Awesome interview! I wish I had Dr. Picower when I was attending a School of Education, and it was interesting (painful, but interesting) to hear about how whiteness worked its way into a social justice curriculum. I'm really hoping that folks in this field can develop some scaffolded antiracism trainings for educators over the next decade. Can't wait to check out the other interviews!