“…In our work with critical frameworks, we have found it particularly important for our pedagogical approach to be sensitive to the vulnerabilities, emotional reactions, and common shifts in perspective that emerge as our prospective teachers encounter critical ways of knowing. We believe that a caring approach to mediation is best positioned to support our students as, together, we all reflect upon and unpack the learned biases, prejudices, and stereotypes inherited as a result of the complex and contradictory system of marginalization and oppression within which we are socialized (Shim, 2013). Caring, in an ethical sense, involves supporting another's growth and well-being (Noddings, 1984); in this case, growth toward a critically conscious, multicultural identity.…”