Promoting Reflective Thinking: Preservice Teachers' Literacy Autobiographies as a Common Text.

Brown, Deborah

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ERIC Number: EJ579252

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Promoting Reflective Thinking: Preservice Teachers' Literacy Autobiographies as a Common Text.

Brown, Deborah

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v42 n5 p402-10 Feb 1999

Describes a literacy autobiography assignment used as the first writing assignment in a methods course for preservice English/language arts teachers to model some strategies for literacy teaching and to encourage reflective thinking. Discusses the kinds of information and insights the autobiographies can reveal, and notes benefits of the assignment. (SR)

Descriptors: Autobiographies, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Arts, Literacy, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education, Reflective Teaching

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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