ERIC Number: EJ1132669
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 14
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"Change Happens beyond the Comfort Zone": Bringing Undergraduate Teacher-Candidates Into Activist Teacher Communities
Riley, Kathleen; Solic, Kathryn
Journal of Teacher Education, v68 n2 p179-192 Mar-Apr 2017
This article shares findings from a qualitative study of an undergraduate urban education fellowship designed to connect teacher-candidates with activist teacher communities and explore questions of social justice, equity, and multicultural teaching. Fellows attended conferences, professional meetings, and on-campus dialogues over one semester. Interview transcripts and meeting notes were analyzed through the lenses of teacher inquiry and transformative learning theory. Findings reveal how teacher-candidates experienced shifts in their viewpoints through encountering new perspectives, discomfort with returning to their lives with new understandings, and a strong drive to further their learning about urban education. Within the context of a persistent gap between a mostly White, middle-class teaching force and a racially and socioeconomically diverse student population, this study offers an image of transformative preservice teacher education in which teacher-candidates encounter professional communities outside of the confines of the classroom.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Activism, Communities of Practice, Urban Education, Fellowships, Social Justice, Equal Education, Multicultural Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Meetings, Semi Structured Interviews, Transcripts (Written Records), Content Analysis, Transformative Learning, Attitude Change, Preservice Teacher Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania
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