{"title":"Beyond Antiracism: Abolitionist Teacher Learning Toward Institutional School Change","authors":"Abby C. Emerson","doi":"10.1177/00224871251383154","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates educator and school leader perceptions of schools in New York City with interest in antiracist professional learning experiences. Through qualitative, semistructured interviews with 8 teacher educators, 12 teachers, and 8 school leaders, it examines tensions around institutional change in antiracist teacher learning. This study found that despite years of ongoing professional learning about race in the school district, there was pervasive avoidance of racial justice at district, school, and individual levels. Institutions and individuals demonstrated interest in antiracism while simultaneously avoiding transformative changes. Furthermore, the study considers the possibility of inservice teacher learning extending beyond antiracism into an abolitionist framework to achieve institutional change.","PeriodicalId":17162,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teacher Education","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Teacher Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00224871251383154","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study investigates educator and school leader perceptions of schools in New York City with interest in antiracist professional learning experiences. Through qualitative, semistructured interviews with 8 teacher educators, 12 teachers, and 8 school leaders, it examines tensions around institutional change in antiracist teacher learning. This study found that despite years of ongoing professional learning about race in the school district, there was pervasive avoidance of racial justice at district, school, and individual levels. Institutions and individuals demonstrated interest in antiracism while simultaneously avoiding transformative changes. Furthermore, the study considers the possibility of inservice teacher learning extending beyond antiracism into an abolitionist framework to achieve institutional change.
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The mission of the Journal of Teacher Education, the flagship journal of AACTE, is to serve as a research forum for a diverse group of scholars who are invested in the preparation and continued support of teachers and who can have a significant voice in discussions and decision-making around issues of teacher education. One of the fundamental goals of the journal is the use of evidence from rigorous investigation to identify and address the increasingly complex issues confronting teacher education at the national and global levels. These issues include but are not limited to preparing teachers to effectively address the needs of marginalized youth, their families and communities; program design and impact; selection, recruitment and retention of teachers from underrepresented groups; local and national policy; accountability; and routes to certification. JTE does not publish book reviews, program evaluations or articles solely describing programs, program components, courses or personal experiences. In addition, JTE does not accept manuscripts that are solely about the development or validation of an instrument unless the use of that instrument yields data providing new insights into issues of relevance to teacher education (MSU, February 2016).