Manufacturing Dissent: The New Economy of Power Relations in Multicultural Teacher Education

Authors

  • Katherine Richardson Bruna Iowa State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v9i1.4

Keywords:

White identity, critical reflection, resistance

Abstract

This article challenges conventional understandings of White preservice teacher resistance by contextualizing it within the historically-situated pedagogical relations of the multicultural teacher education classroom. It describes the power effects of a cultural mismatch-driven, “critical” reflection approach to the preparation of the White preservice teacher and offers as an alternative a practice of Loving Subversion. In this approach, critical reflection is used not to reinscribe White racist identity but to develop a purposeful sense of White anti-racism. A practice of Loving Subversion is necessary, it is argued, if we are to build genuine capacity among White preservice teachers for effective work with culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Author Biography

Katherine Richardson Bruna, Iowa State University

Assistant Professor, Multicultural and International Curriculum Studies, Department of Education

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Published

2007-12-16

How to Cite

Richardson Bruna, K. (2007). Manufacturing Dissent: The New Economy of Power Relations in Multicultural Teacher Education. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v9i1.4

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Articles (Peer-reviewed)