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Preservice Teachers' Community-Based Field Experiences, Erica R. Hamilton, Kelly C. Margot
Preservice Teachers' Community-Based Field Experiences, Erica R. Hamilton, Kelly C. Margot
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There exists much potential for the use of community-based partnerships to support preservice teachers’ learning and development. These opportunities can also expand preservice teachers’ understanding of when and where teaching and learning take place. This paper reports the results of a qualitative, yearlong pilot study focused on secondary preservice teachers’ (N = 42) weekly community-based field experiences at a newly opened secondary public museum school, located in a large Midwestern urban area. Specifically, preservice teachers worked weekly with sixth grade students in an urban public museum setting as part of a required undergraduate content area literacy teacher education course. This …