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Theses/Dissertations

2013

Teacher Education

Discipline

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Pathways To Equity: An Auto-Ethnographic And Narrative Study Of Teacher Educator And Preservice Teachers In A One-Credit Course And Community-Based Field Experience, Lisa Reid Jan 2013

Pathways To Equity: An Auto-Ethnographic And Narrative Study Of Teacher Educator And Preservice Teachers In A One-Credit Course And Community-Based Field Experience, Lisa Reid

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the student population in the United States within the next several years, while predominately White teachers will continue to compromise the teaching population. Schools continually fail to serve racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students, particularly African American students. As such, a critical issue within teacher education is how to best prepare teachers to teach across the lines of ethnicity/race, language, and social class.

In response to this issue, this study looked closely at the identities, perspectives, and experiences of a teacher educator and undergraduate, preservice teachers throughout a one-credit education course infused with elements of equity pedagogies and an added …


A Case Study Seeking Indicators Of Coherence In A Pete Program, Robert John Doan Jan 2013

A Case Study Seeking Indicators Of Coherence In A Pete Program, Robert John Doan

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A Case Study Seeking Indicators of Coherence in a PETE Program

The purpose of this study was to examine the coherence of one facet of a single PETE program. Of particular interest was the role of one unique content course within the curriculum. Teacher educators have been challenged to respond to a variety of forces and to design more effective programs of teacher preparation. There are at least two challenges for teacher educators to respond to these challenges to their effectiveness. One challenge is that there is little empirical research focused on teacher educators themselves (Grundy & Hatton, 1995; John, …