ELATE Discussion Series: Small Talk about Big Ideas - National Council of Teachers of English

The second discussion will feature Rubén González’s (2024) article “‘I’ve always had the abolitionist spirit in me’: Pre-Service Teachers of Color and Pedagogies of Abolitionist Praxis,” and will take place on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 5:00–6:00 p.m. ET. González highlights how ELA teacher preparation programs have embraced the rhetoric of abolition and abolitionist pedagogy, yet often fail to implement the actions necessary to realize true abolition. His article calls for a critical shift in teacher education, pushing the field to realize abolitionist praxis in both formal and informal training settings, and offers activities to guide this integration.

 

This event is open to all ELATE and NCTE members. Join these interactive, virtual discussions to meet the authors, chat in small groups with other ELATE and NCTE members, and learn more about cutting-edge research that is informing the field of English education. Please contact profdev@ncte.org with any questions.

This discussion series is cosponsored by the Center for Equity and Justice in Teacher Education at Georgia State University and the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Rubén González, proudly from Greenfield, California, is a PhD candidate in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education at Stanford University. His current research explores how students and teachers of color develop and enact an abolitionist praxis in the classroom, school, and larger community settings. Rubén’s scholarship has been supported by the California State University Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP), the Stanford Haas Graduate Public Service (GPS) Fellowship, the Ford Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, and the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Prior to pursuing his graduate studies, Rubén was a high school English, English Language Development, and AVID teacher in Sacramento, California. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Sacramento State University after transferring from Hartnell College.

Previous ELATE Discussion Series Events

September 26, 2024, with Stephanie Anne Shelton