Open AccessManufacturing Dissent: The New Economy of Power Relations in Multicultural Teacher Education
Author(s) -
Katherine Richardson Bruna
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international journal of multicultural education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.472
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 1934-5267
DOI - 10.18251/ijme.v9i1.4
Subject(s) - subversion , sociology , multiculturalism , pedagogy , dissent , white (mutation) , identity (music) , power (physics) , power structure , multicultural education , teacher education , situated , cultural pluralism , racism , gender studies , aesthetics , political science , anthropology , law , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , politics , ethnography , computer science , gene
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.