Chapter 3: Individual Journeys Bound by Shared Commitments to Humanizing Research and Pedagogy: Doctoral Education at Michigan State University

This chapter explores the professional learning and development in the Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education (CITE) doctoral program at Michigan State University (MSU). This five-year program is grounded in the Department of Teacher Education’s Core Principles (MSU Department of Teacher Education, 2020), and focuses on preparing (teacher) educators and scholars who are committed to humanizing pedagogy and research, and in particular, to anti-racist education. We take the stance that preparing teacher education is inseparable from efforts related to social justice and anti-racism: the field of teacher education has been charged with decentering whiteness and responding to educational inequities and injustices, and we seek to respond to that charge.