ERIC Number: EJ1239634
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 11
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1068-3844
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Show & Tell: Elementary Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Teaching in High-Poverty Schools
Bazemore-Bertrand, Shamaine; Handsfield, Lara J.
Multicultural Education, v26 n3-4 p27-37 Spr-Sum 2019
A comprehensive body of literature has focused on White teachers working in high-poverty schools (Emdin, 2016; Ullucci, 2011) as well as White teachers working with students of color (Brown-Buchanan, 2015; Emdin, 2016; Ladson-Billings, 1995; Milner, 2010). However, limited studies have focused on how teacher candidates connect race and social class with respect to teaching in high-poverty schools and what support they need from teacher preparation programs to successfully teach in schools with both students who are living in poverty and students of color. In this article, the authors share findings from a study exploring how six elementary teacher candidates who completed clinical experiences in high-poverty elementary schools perceive students who attend these schools (Bertrand, 2017). Using semistructured interviews, visual data using "photovoice," and group "photovoice" discussion sessions, they examined the following research questions: (1) How do elementary education teacher candidates perceive students who attend high-poverty schools? and (2) What do teacher candidates believe they will need from their teacher preparation program to feel prepared to teach in high-poverty elementary schools? Drawing on critical race theory (CRT; Delgado & Stefancic, 2017), and specifically the concept of intersectionality, the authors attempt to disrupt deficit discourses of students living in poverty. Based on their findings, they discuss approaches within teacher education coursework and clinical practice for supporting teacher candidates in feeling prepared to teach in high-poverty schools
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teaching Conditions, Disadvantaged Schools, Poverty, Minority Group Students, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Qualifications, Critical Theory, Race, Photography, Teacher Student Relationship, Cultural Differences, Whites, Cultural Awareness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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