Preparing white preservice teachers for urban classrooms: Growth in a Philadelphia-based literacy practicum
Abstract
Reference
Lazar, A. (2001). Preparing white preservice teachers for urban classrooms: Growth in a Philadelphia-based literacy practicum. In J. V. Hoffman, D. L. Schallert, C. F. Fairbanks, J. Worthy, & B. Maloch (EDS) 50th Yearbook of the National Reading Conference (pp. 367-381), 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?
no
Does this study draw on a large, preexisting data set?
no
Research Approach
Geographic Setting
Institutional Context
Certification Level
Programatic Focus
- Diversity
- Literacy Education
Research Location Context
- Literacy methods course
- student-teaching seminar
- University
Preservice Participants
- undergraduate preservice teachers
Preservice Sample Size
13
Other Participant Data
Duration of Data Collection
Data Sources
- case study report
- fieldnotes
- reflections
- Survey
- written communications with parents and teachers
Data Analysis Tools
- Analytic memos
- Statistical analysis
- Thematic analysis
Researcher Positionality
- Inside (preservice/inservice teacher studying their own practice)
- inside (staying their own students)
Research Questions
(does) " weaving these principles of diversity into a literacy practicum course . . help preservice teachers confront preconceptions about children, families, and schools in the urban community, and begin to see themselves as successful teachers of these children?
Is this research question explicit from the manuscript? No