Through learnings from a survey of university-based teacher educators who constructed student teaching placements in schools serving students of color as problems, in this presentation Mariana Souto-Manning unveils how the concept of quality cloaks the re-production of racism in teacher education. Seeking to interrupt the ways in which teacher education is implicated in the re-production of racial inequities, she partnered with public school teachers to transform student teaching. In describing a situated representation of an innovation at once practice-focused and theoretical, Souto-Manning illustrates the power of praxically-just transformations in teacher education.

This talk is part of the 2018-19 Speaker Series hosted by the GSE's program on Race, Inequality and Language in Education (RILE).

RILE is the result of a dedicated group of faculty working to improve our understanding of the impact of race, inequality, and language in education.