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Perfecting The Craft Of Teaching, Stephanie Nunez
Perfecting The Craft Of Teaching, Stephanie Nunez
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This ethnographic narrative follows my journey as a fifth grade teacher in the greater Los Angeles area. The purpose of this ethnography is to follow the development of my journey as a first-year teacher. In this ethnography, I explore my positionality and the levels of community, school, and classroom as ways to inform and improve my teaching practices as a social-justice educator. I begin this four part narrative by discussing my positionality and how it relates to my desires of becoming a teacher. Through this narrative, I was then able to conduct three case studies of students with different identities …
The Journey That Led Me To Becoming A Critical Social Justice Educator, Stephanie Gatica
The Journey That Led Me To Becoming A Critical Social Justice Educator, Stephanie Gatica
CGU Theses & Dissertations
Within this ethnographic narrative, the works of several theorists who discuss the importance of Critical Social Justice and its effect on students within the classroom will be discussed and put to practice. Beginning May 2019 and carrying through July of 2020, I held these theories closely as they helped pave the way of my first year as a teacher of record, and have since shaped me into the woman I recognize myself as today. Within this document, you will read about the expectations I held myself subject to before going into the classroom, case studies of three students whom I …