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Salas, Spencer; Lewis, Chance W.; Siefert, Bobbi – New Educator, 2021
An abundant and longstanding body of scholarship has underscored the White femininity of the U.S. K-12 teaching workforce and the need to diversify its ranks. Black males, in particular, potentially struggle with the notion of becoming teachers given their often highly negative lived experiences with schools and schooling including low…
Descriptors: African American Students, Graduate Students, Males, Preservice Teachers
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Meyers, Barbara; Fisher, Teresa R.; Alicea, Monica; Bloxson, Kolt M. – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Teach For America (TFA) affiliates with universities in most of its 40 regions nationally; however, few researchers intentionally study the content and processes of a partnership between TFA and a college of education. Purpose/Research Question/Focus of Study: To ensure that investments both organizations were making had a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Professional Associations, Schools of Education, Universities
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Fisher-Ari, Teresa R.; Lynch, Heather L. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
As teacher educators in an alternative certification and master's programme, we support Teach For America (TFA) teachers who are developing understandings of learning, teaching, and curriculum while they are already working full-time in classrooms. Using critical discourse analysis, we analysed 109 metaphors for curriculum created by 27 novice TFA…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Novices, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis