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Making teacher education critical

Abstract

Reference

  • Leland, C., Harste, J. C., Jackson, C. A., & Youssef, O. (2001). Making teacher education critical. In J. V. Hoffman, D. L. Schallert, C. F. Fairbanks, J. Worthy, & B. Maloch (EDS) 50th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 382-393), Chicago, Ill: National Reading Conference. 

Journal

Yearbook of the National Reading Conference

Analysis

Is this article part of a larger project or series of studies?

yes

Does this study draw on a large, preexisting data set?

no

Research Approach

  • critical
  • Qualitiative

Geographic Setting

  • not stated

Institutional Context

  • University based

Certification Level

  • Elementary

Programatic Focus

  • Critical Literacy (transforming practices)
  • culturally relevant pedagogy

Research Location Context

  • Not stated

Preservice Participants

  • Undergraduates (university based program)

Preservice Sample Size

20

Duration of Data Collection

  • 2 academic semesters

Data Sources

  • Reflective journals

Data Analysis Tools

  • coding (emergent categories)
  • coding to a prior categories
  • Statistical analysis

Researcher Positionality

  • inside (staying their own students)
  • Inside (studying their own practices)
  • Inside (studying their own programs)

Research Questions

(generally) how does explicit and intentional focus on critical literacy related to the experiences and learning of preservice teachers
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? Combination

Categories

1TEC Category: Teacher educator practices focused on institutional structures, constraints and pressures.

1TEP Category: Teacher educator practices.

1TES Category: Teacher educator practices focused on surrounding external/political pressures.

2PTI Category: Preservice teacher identity, knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and/or orientation (ikbao) toward literacy or the teaching of literacy.

2PTP Category: Preservice teachers teaching practices (including shifts in teaching practices as a function of growth or context).

3CCE Category: Course experiences – the work that is done in a course to promote the content.

3CCT Category: Course content -- Content of instruction (including TE's teaching with technology) and the experiences in the course that relate to this content.

7CRL Topic: Critical literacy

7CRP Topic: Culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy

7IAB Topic: Identity and Beliefs

7SIU Topic: Sociocultural Influences and Understandings

7ACT Topic: Activism

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