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Using Counterstories and Reflective Writing Assignments to Promote Critical Race Consciousness in an Undergraduate Teacher Preparation Course

Using Counterstories and Reflective Writing Assignments to Promote Critical Race Consciousness in an Undergraduate Teacher Preparation Course

Katherine A. Perrotta, Mary F. Mattson
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781522529064|ISBN10: 1522529063|EISBN13: 9781522529071
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2906-4.ch003
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Perrotta, Katherine A., and Mary F. Mattson. "Using Counterstories and Reflective Writing Assignments to Promote Critical Race Consciousness in an Undergraduate Teacher Preparation Course." Advocacy in Academia and the Role of Teacher Preparation Programs, edited by Ursula Thomas, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 42-64. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2906-4.ch003

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Perrotta, K. A. & Mattson, M. F. (2018). Using Counterstories and Reflective Writing Assignments to Promote Critical Race Consciousness in an Undergraduate Teacher Preparation Course. In U. Thomas (Ed.), Advocacy in Academia and the Role of Teacher Preparation Programs (pp. 42-64). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2906-4.ch003

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Perrotta, Katherine A., and Mary F. Mattson. "Using Counterstories and Reflective Writing Assignments to Promote Critical Race Consciousness in an Undergraduate Teacher Preparation Course." In Advocacy in Academia and the Role of Teacher Preparation Programs, edited by Ursula Thomas, 42-64. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2906-4.ch003

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Abstract

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white patron on a Montgomery bus. Her act of resistance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and ushered in the mid-20th century Civil Rights Movement. Although Parks occupies a prominent place in United States history, she was not the first to challenge racial segregation. Elizabeth Jennings was an African American schoolteacher who was ejected from a streetcar in New York City in 1854. Her lawyer, future President Chester A. Arthur, sued the streetcar company and won. Jennings' and Parks' stories serve as examples of counterstories that can raise critical race consciousness to matters of racial inequity in historical narratives and school curricula. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to examine whether students in an undergraduate teacher preparation course at a major university in a metropolitan region of the Southeast demonstrated critical race consciousness with reflective writing assignments by analyzing the counterstories of Elizabeth Jennings and Rosa Parks.

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