Journal article
"I Never Explicitly Brought That Up to My Mentor": Early Career Teachers of Color Navigating Whiteness With White Mentors in a University-Based Induction Program
Urban education (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Vol.60(7), pp.1942-1973
07/2025
DOI: 10.1177/00420859241244752
Abstract
We examined how three early career teachers of color (TOC) experienced mentoring with white mentors in a university-based induction program within a large urban school district. We found cross-racial pairs privileged whiteness by pursuing "success" through standardized teaching methods (e.g., classroom management) while also avoiding discussions about race, leaving little space or reason to address the overt forms of racism mentees experienced during their first year of teaching. Our findings highlight the need to bring race and racism to the forefront of university-based mentoring to address the harm early career TOC experience in entering a profession dominated by whiteness.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- "I Never Explicitly Brought That Up to My Mentor": Early Career Teachers of Color Navigating Whiteness With White Mentors in a University-Based Induction Program
- Creators
- Annie Daly - The University of Texas at ArlingtonSaba Khan Vlach - University of IowaSusan Tily - University of Wisconsin–Eau ClaireJessi Murdter-Atkinson - University of North TexasBeth Maloch - The University of Texas at Austin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Urban education (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Vol.60(7), pp.1942-1973
- DOI
- 10.1177/00420859241244752
- ISSN
- 0042-0859
- eISSN
- 1552-8340
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Number of pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 04/12/2024
- Date published
- 07/2025
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984621138402771
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