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ERIC Number: EJ759639
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1068-3844
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"Not Writing It out but Writing It off": Preparing Multicultural Teachers for Urban Classrooms
Abbate-Vaughn, Jorgelina
Multicultural Education, v13 n4 p41-48 Sum 2006
To address the challenges associated with a deficit-oriented teacher socialization into the workplace, process writing can be used to facilitate a well-monitored process of ongoing scrutiny and analysis of prospective teachers' evolving conceptualizations. The expectation is that process writing thus delineated facilitates prospective teachers' incremental appreciation for the role their own identities play--particularly for those of middle-class background--in understanding the often overlapping contexts of poverty and cultural and linguistic diversity. The reflective nature of process writing also enables prospective teachers to rethink their roles as cultural brokers and agents of change. This article reports on four prospective teachers who belonged to one of four "peer review writing group" (PRWG). Given the intensity of the changes documented in prospective teachers' writing, depth was prioritized over quantity for this article by focusing on one PRWG. (Contains 8 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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