Event Title
“I Lost a Part of Myself ... in the Best Way”: Narrative Inquiry Exploring the Process of Cultural Competence
Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
Urban schools need culturally competent teachers. Much of the current literature is dedicated to exploring how to prepare pre-service teachers, a workforce of mostly White females, for our diverse classrooms, but what about pre-service teachers who enter college more woke than the average middle to upper class White female? This partial autobiographical narrative inquiry explores 1) my experience gaining cultural competence informally and 2) the experience of an already culturally competent pre-service teacher before she took her first multicultural education class in college. Results reveal similarities between story arcs that aid understanding about the process of becoming culturally competent.
Keywords
Cultural Competence
Persistent Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/2980
“I Lost a Part of Myself ... in the Best Way”: Narrative Inquiry Exploring the Process of Cultural Competence
Urban schools need culturally competent teachers. Much of the current literature is dedicated to exploring how to prepare pre-service teachers, a workforce of mostly White females, for our diverse classrooms, but what about pre-service teachers who enter college more woke than the average middle to upper class White female? This partial autobiographical narrative inquiry explores 1) my experience gaining cultural competence informally and 2) the experience of an already culturally competent pre-service teacher before she took her first multicultural education class in college. Results reveal similarities between story arcs that aid understanding about the process of becoming culturally competent.