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Developing Critically Conscious Pre-service Teachers

Author : Beth Ann Alsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Developing Critically Conscious Pre-service Teachers written by Beth Ann Alsen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major issues confronting education in Arizona and across the United States has been the consistent low performance of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students in comparison to their peers as evidenced by the disparity of the achievement gap at every level in the educational pipeline. A contributing factor has been the lack of teacher preparation focused on teaching CLD students. Preparation focused on a culturally responsive curriculum about dispositions and pedagogical knowledge and skills as well as field experience placement with CLD students have been previously identified areas to consider when training preservice teachers (PSTs). Therefore, this study examined how a Culturally Responsive and Linguistic Teaching (CRLT) Framework would raise preservice teacher's critical consciousness about teaching CLD students. The CRLT Framework focused on two specific areas; (a) a culturally responsive curriculum and (b) a team-based service-learning experience. The CRP curriculum included lessons designed to increase PSTs understanding about how their sociolinguist views influenced their pedagogical knowledge about teaching CLD students. In addition, the team-based service-learning approach, as a community of practice, provided experiences for PSTs to apply theory to practice. A mixed method analysis was employed to collect and analyze the quantitative data (surveys) and qualitative data (interviews and photovoice). Results from this study suggested increases in PSTs' knowledge, self-efficacy, and perceptions of usefulness of CRP in their future practices. The team-based, service-learning component, which was based on a community of practice framework, enhanced the learning experience by allowing students to move from theory to practice and served as an important contributing factor to the overall results. Given the findings of this research study, it appeared that an introductory course focused on a culturally responsive and linguistic teaching influenced PSTs' dispositions, knowledge, and skills. Thus, providing an introductory course, earlier rather than later, has the potential to change the trajectory of preparing PSTs so they were more prepared to teach CLD students as they continued through their program of study. Results showed effective work with CLD students was about so much more than 'just good teaching.'

Handbook of Research on Teaching Diverse Youth Literature to Pre-Service Professionals

Author : Hartsfield, Danielle E.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799873773
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Teaching Diverse Youth Literature to Pre-Service Professionals written by Hartsfield, Danielle E. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives and identity are typically reinforced at a young age, giving teachers the responsibility of selecting reading material that could potentially change how the child sees the world. This is the importance of sharing diverse literature with today’s children and young adults, which introduces them to texts that deal with religion, gender identities, racial identities, socioeconomic conditions, etc. Teachers and librarians play significant roles in placing diverse books in the hands of young readers. However, to achieve the goal of increasing young people’s access to diverse books, educators and librarians must receive quality instruction on this topic within their university preparation programs. The Handbook of Research on Teaching Diverse Youth Literature to Pre-Service Professionals is a comprehensive reference source that curates promising practices that teachers and librarians are currently applying to prepare aspiring teachers and librarians for sharing and teaching diverse youth literature. Given the importance of sharing diverse books with today’s young people, university educators must be aware of engaging and effective methods for teaching diverse literature to pre-service teachers and librarians. Covering topics such as syllabus development, diversity, social justice, and activity planning, this text is essential for university-level teacher educators, library educators who prepare pre-service teachers and librarians, university educators, faculty, adjunct instructors, researchers, and students.

Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs

Author : Clausen, Courtney K.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799850994
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs by : Clausen, Courtney K.

Download or read book Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs written by Clausen, Courtney K. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the increasingly diverse populations found in Pre-K-12 education, it is imperative that teacher educators prepare preservice teachers to meet the shifting needs of changing student populations. Through the integration of social justice education, teacher educators can challenge the mainstream curriculum with a lens of equity and collaborative equality. Handbook of Research on Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs is a critical research book that explores the preparation and teaching methods of educators for including social justice curriculum. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as ethics, language-based learning, and feminism, this book is ideal for academicians, curriculum designers, social scientists, teacher educators, researchers, and students.

Growing Critically Conscious Teachers

Author : Angela Valenzuela
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807773964
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Growing Critically Conscious Teachers written by Angela Valenzuela and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To meet the needs of the fast growing numbers of Latino/a English learners, this volume presents an approach to secondary education teacher preparation based on the work of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP). Renowned scholar and educator Angela Valenzuela, together with an impressive roster of contributors, provides a critical framework for educating culturally responsive teachers. They examine the knowledge, skills, and predisposition required for higher education institutions to create curricula for educating Latino/a children, children of color, and language minority youth. Growing Critically Conscious Teachers illuminates why growing our own teachers makes sense as an approach for not only addressing the achievement gap, but for also enhancing the well-being of our communities as a whole. Book Features: A community-based, university- and district-connected partnership model that fosters students’ critical consciousness. A framework for participatory action research (PAR) within teacher preparation that promotes community and societal transformation. A curriculum premised on sociocultural and sociopolitical awareness. The wisdom, experiences, and lessons learned from educators who have been change agents in their own schools, communities, and college classrooms across the country. “An enormous contribution to the field. It will also be a cherished resource and guide for Latino/a and non-Latino/a teachers alike, and for the university faculty and school- and community-based facilitators who help prepare them.” —From the Foreword by Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita, Language, Literacy, and Culture, College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Provides the elemental sparks for essential conversations about culturally responsive teaching and the well-being of youth in our communities. Through a variety of critical perspectives this volume raises significant questions that must be at the forefront of Latino/a education. This excellent volume is a must read for teachers truly committed to educational practices of social justice in schools today.” —Antonia Darder, Leavey Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University

Reflective Teacher Education

Author : Linda Valli
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438422644
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Reflective Teacher Education written by Linda Valli and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An increasing number of educators are arguing for conceptually sound reflective or inquiry-oriented teacher education programs. The argument is based on the fact that reflective teaching is possible and the belief that teachers should develop habits of consciously informed action. Those who promote reflective teaching argue for teacher empowerment within a self-renewing profession. Reflective Teacher Education offers case studies from seven universities that have organized teacher education programs around the concept of reflection. The cases represent public and private institutions, and alternative and traditional models of teacher preparation. The studies represent efforts to transform the entire professional education component rather than individual courses or isolated strategies. The volume also considers reflection as a conceptual orientation, commenting on its power to inform and improve teacher education, and assessing the implementation of reflection in these specific programs. The six critiques raise intriguing questions about the possibility and desirability of reflective reform efforts by viewing the cases from varying perspectives—development, cognitive, feminist, social reconstructionist, and post-modern.

#Instawoke

Author : Elizabeth Jane Greer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book #Instawoke written by Elizabeth Jane Greer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns for educational equity for an increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse K-12 student population has drawn attention to the preparation of future teachers' multilingual, multicultural, and social justice-oriented capacities. This qualitative case study explored the pedagogical use of social justice-oriented social media in teacher education to develop critical consciousness and political and ideological clarity amongst a cohort of 22 elementary ESL-certified pre-service teachers. As part of their teacher education coursework, participants were asked to engage with a social justice-oriented Instagram account and submit ten written reflections responding to ten Instagram posts of their choice. These reflections were triangulated with participants' autobiographical data and questionnaire results to draw conclusions about the ways in which they interpreted the content on the account particularly in light of their sociocultural backgrounds, their development as critically conscious educators, and their existing digital practices. Findings indicated that participants were on a trajectory towards critical consciousness and were strategically drawing on their emotions, text-to connections, their experiences with their students, and larger societal discourses to understand social and political issues. Additionally, pre-service teachers' sociocultural backgrounds, particularly in terms of race, gender, and religion, played strong roles in their interpretations of social justice issues. As the use of social media for the purposes of critical consciousness development was an engaging tool, recommendations for social media use and social justice-oriented teacher education are provided

Schooling for Critical Consciousness

Author : Scott Seider
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1682534316
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Schooling for Critical Consciousness written by Scott Seider and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schooling for Critical Consciousness addresses how schools can help Black and Latinx youth resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes. Scott Seider and Daren Graves draw on a four-year longitudinal study examining how five different mission-driven urban high schools foster critical consciousness among their students. The book presents vivid portraits of the schools as they implement various programs and practices, and traces the impact of these approaches on the students themselves. The authors make a unique contribution to the existing scholarship on critical consciousness and culturally responsive teaching by comparing the roles of different schooling models in fostering various dimensions of critical consciousness and identifying specific programming and practices that contributed to this work. Through their research with more than 300 hundred students of color, Seider and Graves aim to help educators strengthen their capacity to support young people in learning to analyze, navigate, and challenge racial injustice. Schooling for Critical Consciousness provides school leaders and educators with specific programming and practices they can incorporate into their own school contexts to support the critical consciousness development of the youth they serve.

Education for Critical Consciousness

Author : Paulo Freire
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780937814
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Education for Critical Consciousness written by Paulo Freire and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paulo Freire outlines the revolutionary principles behind the educational methods that have made him one of the 20th century's most influential education theorists.

PERFORMING CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN TEACHING

Author : Kathleen A. McDonough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book PERFORMING CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN TEACHING written by Kathleen A. McDonough and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when education reform is guided by neoliberalism, accountability and standardization have reshaped teaching as highly technocratic and threatened the democratic possibilities of public education. Even so, many teacher education programs have taken up the call to prepare teachers to teach for social justice, whether framed as multicultural education, critical literacy, or critical pedagogy. A construct that ties these pedagogical approaches together is critical consciousness, with the aim of some teacher education efforts to evoke critical consciousness among preservice teachers. This study focuses on exploring how nine educators from elementary grades to higher education experience and enact critical consciousness in their own work of teaching and leading schools. Using ethnographic methods for data collection, I spent a year visiting the classrooms and schools of elementary teachers, high school teachers, an art teacher, two principals and two teacher educators to learn how they thought about criticality and taught critically. I engaged with and analyzed the data through reading and writing as methods of analysis and in dialogue with theory to create a layered text (Ellingson, 2011). In the teacher education literature critical consciousness is mainly situated as a cognitive experience that individuals have or acquire. This research expands the construct of critical consciousness from a modernist view of criticality to a poststructural exploration of the production of critical consciousness. It challenges notions of critical consciousness as an individual attribute that is attained and which then functions as the source of criticality. Instead it reconstructs critical consciousness as a performed social relation and embodied experience that re/produces variations of criticality from moment to moment and across contexts. I highlight critical consciousness as intersubjective and an entanglement among rational knowing, feeling, and doing as a result of engagement with others. This study has implications for teacher education including the need to think differently about relationship-building, understanding education as political, developing critical literacy through multiple ways of knowing, and "reading" our teaching and our lives.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Author : Paulo Freire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140225839
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Pedagogy of the Oppressed written by Paulo Freire and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain

Author : Zaretta Hammond
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 1483308022
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain written by Zaretta Hammond and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation—until now. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. The book includes: Information on how one’s culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships Ten “key moves” to build students’ learner operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners Prompts for action and valuable self-reflection

Pre-Service Teachers Pursuing Critical Pedagogy

Author : Karen F.S. Finn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Pre-Service Teachers Pursuing Critical Pedagogy written by Karen F.S. Finn and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory-to-practice is a foundational concept in initial teacher education (ITE). However, this assumes pre-service teachers have power to enact theory-to-practice while on professional practice placement. This thesis investigates how pre-service teachers translate and apply the theory they learn in academic courses, specifically those concerned with critical pedagogy and cultural responsiveness, to their professional practice placements, and what factors influence them in this process. Critical pedagogy is also important for understanding the key influences on pre-service teachers in this regard. This thesis considers Ann Milne’s (2013, 2017) term culturally-responsive critical pedagogy the most appropriate for Aotearoa, because here culture intersects with critical pedagogy’s central concept of class. This small study took a critical social sciences approach and used qualitative research methods. The two pre-service teacher participants, from a small ITE provider in a large city in Aotearoa, were undertaking a four-week professional practice placement in schools within that city. Data were collected through interviews, classroom observations, and participants’ planning documents. Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analysis was used to identify themes according to two research focuses: how do pre-service teachers apply culturally-responsive critical pedagogy during professional practice placement, and what are the influences on pre-service teachers in doing so? The research identified five ways of enacting culturally-responsive critical pedagogy: reflecting on self and identity by the pre-service teacher; centring ākonga (learners); uplifting culture; developing critical consciousness; and improving academic outcomes for ākonga of non-dominant cultures. However, the pre-service teachers were found to only focus on the first four, and not to engage with improving academic outcomes for ākonga of non-dominant cultures. Three main influences on preservice teachers’ enactment were identified: the pre-service teacher themselves; the power exercised by others involved in the professional practice placement; and wider societal influences on education. Some influences could be considered barriers, enablers, or both, while other powerful influences were not seen as either. Notably, themes related to the pre-service teacher and society were present in both research focuses.

Teacher Education with an Attitude

Author : Patrick J. Finn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480399
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Teacher Education with an Attitude by : Patrick J. Finn

Download or read book Teacher Education with an Attitude written by Patrick J. Finn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a social justice approach to teacher education, the contributing teacher educators address the need to prepare teachers to understand the way social class, race, and culture impact their efforts to educate working-class students. By helping prepare teachers to strengthen democracy through education, the contributors offer ways to help them develop "critical consciousness"—the will to address society's injustices and inequities. Teachers who collaborate actively with their students, their families, and others, such as community and labor organizers, to challenge the economic and educational policies that keep the hierarchical structure in place, develop their own educational and political power alongside their students. These educators see schools as sites of struggle for democracy, and their students learn to direct their attitude toward outcomes that are in their collective self-interest.

Ambitious Science Teaching

Author : Mark Windschitl
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1682531643
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (825 download)

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Download or read book Ambitious Science Teaching written by Mark Windschitl and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented. The book is organized around four sets of core teaching practices: planning for engagement with big ideas; eliciting student thinking; supporting changes in students’ thinking; and drawing together evidence-based explanations. Discussion of each practice includes tools and routines that teachers can use to support students’ participation, transcripts of actual student-teacher dialogue and descriptions of teachers’ thinking as it unfolds, and examples of student work. The book also provides explicit guidance for “opportunity to learn” strategies that can help scaffold the participation of diverse students. Since the success of these practices depends so heavily on discourse among students, Ambitious Science Teaching includes chapters on productive classroom talk. Science-specific skills such as modeling and scientific argument are also covered. Drawing on the emerging research on core teaching practices and their extensive work with preservice and in-service teachers, Ambitious Science Teaching presents a coherent and aligned set of resources for educators striving to meet the considerable challenges that have been set for them.

Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth

Author : Erin B. Godfrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009153838
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth written by Erin B. Godfrey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how common, everyday spaces in youth's lives can be leveraged to help them recognize and fight injustice.

Seeking for Critical Literacy

Author : Edric Clifford Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Seeking for Critical Literacy written by Edric Clifford Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study looks at the development of critical literacy for three preservice teacher participants, relevant support systems and pedagogies, as well as their ability to develop and use critical literacy approaches in the middle childhood school social studies curriculum that helped raised their critical consciousness and skills as critically literate teachers. For the purpose of this study, the research question is: Given both field experience and a social studies method course, how do preservice teachers move beyond positions of cognitive internalizations of theory and practices of critical literacy toward transformative practices and commitments needed to guide them in their teaching? This study also considers how preservice teacher participants' construct knowledge on critical literacy within the methods course and how outside factors have influenced their application. The participants started with their own literacy histories in order to began developing internalization and critical consciousness within the methods and field experience course. When they attempted to connect critical literacy into the field experience, the mentor teacher's support and knowing the students played an important role. Similar to all of the preservice teachers in the course, the participants had their own obstacles in the field experience. However, their critical awareness of the obstacles caused them to utilize their own problem posing situations as part of their learning. Throughout the course, the participants took social action by using some of the critical literacy approaches that were presented as instructional strategies in the methods course. However, the participants were still internalizing two essential components of critical pedagogy in their own teaching: problem posing and dialogue. They acknowledged the value of problem posing and dialogue in their own learning, but had some difficulty using these methods in their own teaching. One implication for teacher education is to promote social studies preservice teachers to compose lesson plans that are directly related to issues of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, disabilities, etc.

Handbook of Research on Critical Thinking Strategies in Pre-Service Learning Environments

Author : Mariano, Gina J.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522578242
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Critical Thinking Strategies in Pre-Service Learning Environments written by Mariano, Gina J. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning strategies for critical thinking are a vital part of today’s curriculum as students have few additional opportunities to learn these skills outside of school environments. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for pre-service teachers to learn how to infuse critical thinking skill development in every academic subject to assist future students in developing these skills. The Handbook of Research on Critical Thinking Strategies in Pre-Service Learning Environments is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of critical thinking that highlights ways to effectively use critical thinking strategies and implement critical thinking skill development into courses. While highlighting topics including deep learning, metacognition, and discourse analysis, this book is ideally designed for educators, academicians, researchers, and students.