“Lies My Teacher [Educator] Still Tells”: Using Critical Race Counternarratives to Disrupt Whiteness in Teacher Education

Brittany Aronsona*, Lateasha Meyersa & Vanessa Winnba Miami University; b University of DaytonSupplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/08878730.2020.1759743.CONTACT Brittany Aronson aronsoba@miamioh.edu Educational Leadership, Miami University, 210 East Spring Street, 304 MCG, Oxford, OH 45056, USA.AbstractThe purpose of this study was to disrupt whiteness through the use of critical race counternarratives during a critical literacy workshop with middle-school preservice teachers. Over two years, 57 preservice teachers participated in and reflected on their experiences reading master narratives and viewing counternarrative texts in a critical literacy workshop. Students responded in a variety of ways that ranged from displacing responsibility for their ignorance about the counternarrative texts onto educational structures, to troubling their roles in reproducing oppressive school environments and considering action steps for future teaching. Our research has important implications for preservice teachers, teacher educators, and those interested in implementing preservice teacher educator curriculum using a critical race theory lens.