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To Stay And To Change: Beginning Social Justice Educators Creating Collaborative Third Space(S), Teresa Renae Fisher
To Stay And To Change: Beginning Social Justice Educators Creating Collaborative Third Space(S), Teresa Renae Fisher
Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations
Beginning teachers committed to social justice and emancipatory education often experience isolation and discouragement and need communities for intellectual, social, and emotional support as they learn to teach, and sustain their commitments to transformative pedagogy. This qualitative inquiry followed recent graduates who demonstrated personal commitments to a more just world through their lives and their studies and who began their first year as teachers in a variety of settings. Framed within a theory of transformational learning, third space, and Adler’s concepts of social interest and encouragement, the participants and the participant researcher co-created a virtual community to reflect upon and …