Exploring Race: Teacher Educators Bridge Their Personal and Professional Identities

Abstract

This article explores the changing space that occurs as teacher educators are inducted into the academy and continue to negotiate their system of relationships within and outside their professional lives. In this article, 2 teacher educators share transformative experiences as they attempt to bridge their personal and professional identities. Through this dialogue, they assist other teacher educators in self-reflection providing examples of how preservice teachers and others discuss race and whiteness. They situate their work in multicultural approaches to teacher education and focus this particular discussion on their use of the film, The Color of Fear.