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Preservice Teachers Engaged In Professional Learning Community To Explore Critical Literacy, Vanessa Casciola
Preservice Teachers Engaged In Professional Learning Community To Explore Critical Literacy, Vanessa Casciola
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
As demographics change, our school populations are ever changing. Preservice teachers (PSTs) need to be aware of how to meet the needs of all of their future students. Teacher education programs have been charged with the duty of preparing these PSTs for the diverse school population they will encounter. This qualitative multiple case study focused on the influence of specific work with PSTs in the inquiry process within a learning community to make sense of critical literacy. The following research questions guided this study: (1) How do elementary PSTs engaged in practitioner inquiry make meaning of critical literacy instruction within …