Toward Anti-Racist Teacher Education

This chapter returns to the theoretical basis for the book to examine and challenge the toxic habits of mind and patterns of acting described in Chaps. 3 and 4 , drawing out the larger social and institutional practices which shape White preservice teachers’ approach to racism. We then consider the implications for teacher education programs, focusing specifically on the need to challenge White prospective teachers’ unexamined habits of mind about race and racism not just through readings and exercises in multicultural education courses but also through the entire field experience.