Erin T Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 6007775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin T Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin T |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER E T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0449-2770 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
One important time
I (Erin) am reading a tantalizing book, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia” by Pankaj Mishra. This is not my first read of the work of anti-imperialist, anti-colonial schol
The measure of this journal
Measuring the impact of a journal is a funny thing.Both of us (Sam and Erin) have written about the success of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy in our statements for promotion and tenure. We’
Complexifying White Racial Identity
In this article, we synthesize the work of two prominent African-American critical Whiteness scholars, Reverend Thandeka and Veronica Watson who over a nuanced and contextualized understanding of White identity development. We argue their work, not widely circulated in education and teacher education, could complement Helms’s prevailing model for White racial identity, a popular pedagogical tool in these felds. Thandeka and Watson pay close atten…
Eat the fruit and strive for cosmic balance
Over the break, I (Erin) read an 800+-page fantasy novel called the Priory of the Orange Tree, written by Samantha Shannon. It was just the escape I needed as United States’ post-Trump realities me
Moving forward anyway
Recently we (Sam and Erin) had a discussion with a stakeholder in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. This person asked us what protection the journal offered for scholars who publish critical
Storytelling and Improvisation as Anti-Racist Pedagogies
This book theorizes and describes the concept of transformative critical whiteness pedagogies that are rooted in theories and practices of improvisation. It shows how these pedagogies invite people, especially white people, into the urgent work of resisting the ongoing production and affirmation of white supremacy. Using the frameworks of storytelling and story analysis, this book uses narrative to invite the reader into ongoing work to design an…
Plantation economy religion
Research about Black boys in predominantly white conservative Christian schools has centered on their racialized experiences. For Black males, these experiences have been traumatic because their white Christian teachers and classmates have demonstrated anti-black racism through the use of derogatory language, social exclusion, and stereotyping. Researchers have focused on this anti-blackness with little consideration for the religious environment…
We’ve Been Had
In this manuscript, we rely on practices of thinking with and through theory to situate and analyze the discourses of three neoliberal educational reform initiatives. We researched public-facing material from these initiatives to surface how commonsense language and colorblindness is often used to disguise agendas that reaffirm the racial status quo in urban schools and society. We offer strategies for educators, teacher-educators, and administra…
What are we
Lately we’ve been thinking about the different kinds of interactions we have with people when we talk about the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. We’ve had all sorts of conversations about the jo
Doesn't Your Work Just Re-Center Whiteness
Our purpose is to engage performative dialogue incorporative of currere on a central question in critical White studies (CWS). After precautionary notes and positionalities, we frame our dialogue within second-wave CWS. As its main section, six CWS scholars respond to the central question: Doesn’t research on White identities re-center whiteness? Analyzing the scholars’ responses, the performative dialogue is followed by an analytical discussion …
Curriculum and Pedagogy Unbound
In search of Becky and the others
In this essay, told from my perspective as a white woman, I spend time critically analyzing the caricatures of racist white women as I hold them up against stories of actual white women. My goal is illuminate how stereotypes of white racist women serve as a normative yardstick for the construction of another kind of white woman: the antiracist one. Aspiring antiracist white women spend much time in search of white racist women embodied in such st…
Without closure
Destructive domains
In this manuscript, we argue that the increasing use of reductive tools born out of neoliberal reforms in education, such as The Framework for Teaching, a tool for teacher evaluation credited to Charlotte Danielson, limits the possibilities for emergent, improvisational teaching. We consider the broader political landscape of the last 25 years to suggest that The Framework for Teaching illuminates a preoccupation in education with so-called measu…
Toward Vitality
Moving into impermanence
“Impermanence is the essence of everything.” – Pema Chodron Our last editorial, written in February 2020, feels distant. Like many of you reading this right now, we have been searching for ways to
Mammies, brute Negroes, and white femininity in teacher education
In this article, we examine two stories about white femininity. The first, written by Danielle, was an assignment in a pre-service teacher education course. The second story is of the fictional Lily—the main character of an internationally best-selling novel. In our analyses, we pay special attention to how enduring racist images and caricatures of black people function in the complex social construction of white femininity. We conclude that teac…
We might play different parts
This article reports on what three white critical whiteness scholars learned about the ways white supremacy was affirmed and resisted during a two-day improvisational, critical whiteness workshop. The authors relied on critical literacy to theorise the castle as a sign or text with implicit, racial meaning. Furthermore, the authors use improvisational theatre to design and make sense of critical pedagogy intended to disrupt the ongoing production…
The Maintenance of Whiteness in Urban Education
Told from the perspective of two early career professors teaching courses in elementary education diversity, this study uses purposive sampling and qualitative methodologies to examine how white students with impervious dispositions that would likely not qualify them to work with diverse children at this point in their lives present us with opportunities to better understand the deeply rooted and complicated nature of whiteness in teacher educati…
Reifying and Resisting Racism from Early Childhood to Young Adulthood
Discourses of whiteness and blackness
In blatant, but nuanced and often invisible ways, racism continues to exist globally, nationally and locally, implicating us all. The insidious nature of racism is deeply rooted in the lives of young children. In order to interrupt and reverse those practices, we must know how race is constructed during the early years. This study looked closely at the lives of three white children to identify and examine discourses in their worlds that unveiled …
Challenge, change, and continuity
Discourses of whiteness and blackness
In blatant, but nuanced and often invisible ways, racism continues to exist globally, nationally and locally, implicating us all. The insidious nature of racism is deeply rooted in the lives of young children. In order to interrupt and reverse those practices, we must know how race is constructed during the early years. This study looked closely at the lives of three white children to identify and examine discourses in their worlds that unveiled …
We’ve Been Had
In this manuscript, we rely on practices of thinking with and through theory to situate and analyze the discourses of three neoliberal educational reform initiatives. We researched public-facing material from these initiatives to surface how commonsense language and colorblindness is often used to disguise agendas that reaffirm the racial status quo in urban schools and society. We offer strategies for educators, teacher-educators, and administra…
Mammies, brute Negroes, and white femininity in teacher education
In this article, we examine two stories about white femininity. The first, written by Danielle, was an assignment in a pre-service teacher education course. The second story is of the fictional Lily—the main character of an internationally best-selling novel. In our analyses, we pay special attention to how enduring racist images and caricatures of black people function in the complex social construction of white femininity. We conclude that teac…
Reifying and Resisting Racism from Early Childhood to Young Adulthood
In search of Becky and the others
In this essay, told from my perspective as a white woman, I spend time critically analyzing the caricatures of racist white women as I hold them up against stories of actual white women. My goal is illuminate how stereotypes of white racist women serve as a normative yardstick for the construction of another kind of white woman: the antiracist one. Aspiring antiracist white women spend much time in search of white racist women embodied in such st…
Destructive domains
In this manuscript, we argue that the increasing use of reductive tools born out of neoliberal reforms in education, such as The Framework for Teaching, a tool for teacher evaluation credited to Charlotte Danielson, limits the possibilities for emergent, improvisational teaching. We consider the broader political landscape of the last 25 years to suggest that The Framework for Teaching illuminates a preoccupation in education with so-called measu…
The Maintenance of Whiteness in Urban Education
Told from the perspective of two early career professors teaching courses in elementary education diversity, this study uses purposive sampling and qualitative methodologies to examine how white students with impervious dispositions that would likely not qualify them to work with diverse children at this point in their lives present us with opportunities to better understand the deeply rooted and complicated nature of whiteness in teacher educati…
Challenge, change, and continuity
Discourses of whiteness and blackness
In blatant, but nuanced and often invisible ways, racism continues to exist globally, nationally and locally, implicating us all. The insidious nature of racism is deeply rooted in the lives of young children. In order to interrupt and reverse those practices, we must know how race is constructed during the early years. This study looked closely at the lives of three white children to identify and examine discourses in their worlds that unveiled …
Reifying and Resisting Racism from Early Childhood to Young Adulthood
We might play different parts
This article reports on what three white critical whiteness scholars learned about the ways white supremacy was affirmed and resisted during a two-day improvisational, critical whiteness workshop. The authors relied on critical literacy to theorise the castle as a sign or text with implicit, racial meaning. Furthermore, the authors use improvisational theatre to design and make sense of critical pedagogy intended to disrupt the ongoing production…
The Maintenance of Whiteness in Urban Education
Told from the perspective of two early career professors teaching courses in elementary education diversity, this study uses purposive sampling and qualitative methodologies to examine how white students with impervious dispositions that would likely not qualify them to work with diverse children at this point in their lives present us with opportunities to better understand the deeply rooted and complicated nature of whiteness in teacher educati…
Toward Vitality
Moving into impermanence
“Impermanence is the essence of everything.” – Pema Chodron Our last editorial, written in February 2020, feels distant. Like many of you reading this right now, we have been searching for ways to
Mammies, brute Negroes, and white femininity in teacher education
In this article, we examine two stories about white femininity. The first, written by Danielle, was an assignment in a pre-service teacher education course. The second story is of the fictional Lily—the main character of an internationally best-selling novel. In our analyses, we pay special attention to how enduring racist images and caricatures of black people function in the complex social construction of white femininity. We conclude that teac…
Without closure
Destructive domains
In this manuscript, we argue that the increasing use of reductive tools born out of neoliberal reforms in education, such as The Framework for Teaching, a tool for teacher evaluation credited to Charlotte Danielson, limits the possibilities for emergent, improvisational teaching. We consider the broader political landscape of the last 25 years to suggest that The Framework for Teaching illuminates a preoccupation in education with so-called measu…
Doesn't Your Work Just Re-Center Whiteness
Our purpose is to engage performative dialogue incorporative of currere on a central question in critical White studies (CWS). After precautionary notes and positionalities, we frame our dialogue within second-wave CWS. As its main section, six CWS scholars respond to the central question: Doesn’t research on White identities re-center whiteness? Analyzing the scholars’ responses, the performative dialogue is followed by an analytical discussion …
Curriculum and Pedagogy Unbound
In search of Becky and the others
In this essay, told from my perspective as a white woman, I spend time critically analyzing the caricatures of racist white women as I hold them up against stories of actual white women. My goal is illuminate how stereotypes of white racist women serve as a normative yardstick for the construction of another kind of white woman: the antiracist one. Aspiring antiracist white women spend much time in search of white racist women embodied in such st…
What are we
Lately we’ve been thinking about the different kinds of interactions we have with people when we talk about the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. We’ve had all sorts of conversations about the jo
Storytelling and Improvisation as Anti-Racist Pedagogies
This book theorizes and describes the concept of transformative critical whiteness pedagogies that are rooted in theories and practices of improvisation. It shows how these pedagogies invite people, especially white people, into the urgent work of resisting the ongoing production and affirmation of white supremacy. Using the frameworks of storytelling and story analysis, this book uses narrative to invite the reader into ongoing work to design an…
Plantation economy religion
Research about Black boys in predominantly white conservative Christian schools has centered on their racialized experiences. For Black males, these experiences have been traumatic because their white Christian teachers and classmates have demonstrated anti-black racism through the use of derogatory language, social exclusion, and stereotyping. Researchers have focused on this anti-blackness with little consideration for the religious environment…
We’ve Been Had
In this manuscript, we rely on practices of thinking with and through theory to situate and analyze the discourses of three neoliberal educational reform initiatives. We researched public-facing material from these initiatives to surface how commonsense language and colorblindness is often used to disguise agendas that reaffirm the racial status quo in urban schools and society. We offer strategies for educators, teacher-educators, and administra…
Eat the fruit and strive for cosmic balance
Over the break, I (Erin) read an 800+-page fantasy novel called the Priory of the Orange Tree, written by Samantha Shannon. It was just the escape I needed as United States’ post-Trump realities me
Moving forward anyway
Recently we (Sam and Erin) had a discussion with a stakeholder in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. This person asked us what protection the journal offered for scholars who publish critical
One important time
I (Erin) am reading a tantalizing book, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia” by Pankaj Mishra. This is not my first read of the work of anti-imperialist, anti-colonial schol
The measure of this journal
Measuring the impact of a journal is a funny thing.Both of us (Sam and Erin) have written about the success of the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy in our statements for promotion and tenure. We’
Complexifying White Racial Identity
In this article, we synthesize the work of two prominent African-American critical Whiteness scholars, Reverend Thandeka and Veronica Watson who over a nuanced and contextualized understanding of White identity development. We argue their work, not widely circulated in education and teacher education, could complement Helms’s prevailing model for White racial identity, a popular pedagogical tool in these felds. Thandeka and Watson pay close atten…
Sociology (18 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · White (mutation (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Racism (5 works)