Dept. of Teacher Education Chair Search: Dorinda Carter Andrews

Please the upcoming talks for the Department of Teacher Education Chair Search candidate, Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews, who will be in the MSU College of Education for her campus visit interview.

“Dry Bones Rattling: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice in Education”

In this talk, Dr. Carter Andrews describes the essential questions that drive her nearly 20-year research agenda focused on racial equity and justice in education. Her work has a specific focus on critical examinations of race, racism and whiteness at cultural, institutional, structural and environmental levels for minoritized students in schools. Here, she will provide key insights on one strand of her scholarship that centers Black youth’s perspectives on the international impact of racism on identity and schooling, and how these understandings can enhance teacher pedagogy and practice.

About Dr. Carter Andrews

Dorinda Carter Andrews is associate dean for Equity and Inclusion for the College of Education and an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. She studies issues of racial justice in P-20 learning environments, urban teacher preparation and critical praxis with K-12 educators. Dr. Carter Andrews is a former industrial engineer, high school math teacher and kindergarten teacher and has experience teaching in suburban, urban, charger and independent schools. She is the recipient of the 2018 Mid-Career Award from the Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. In addition to numerous honors, she has given two TEDx talks on education—one entitled “The Consciousness Gap in Education: An Equity Imperative” and another entitled “Teach Kids to Be Eagles: Overcoming Educational Storms.” Dr. Carter Andrews is co-editor of the Journal of Teacher Education, and her work appears in several top-tier academic journals and social media outlets.