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Studying Teacher Education, Brenna Bohny, Monica Taylor, Sa Qwona S. Clark, Susan D’Elia, Graziela Lobato-Creekmur, Stephanie Brown Tarnowski, Sara Wasserman
Studying Teacher Education, Brenna Bohny, Monica Taylor, Sa Qwona S. Clark, Susan D’Elia, Graziela Lobato-Creekmur, Stephanie Brown Tarnowski, Sara Wasserman
Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works
Through a self-study methodology, six doctoral students and a professor examine how our semester long doctoral level class became a transformative space for all participants. We investigate how each individual was able to participate in the construction of a powerful and meaningful learning community, which led to a re-visioning of ourselves as women and teacher educators. Feminist pedagogy and positioning theory provide a guiding framework for both the class and our own reflective research. Our findings include, but are not limited to, showing how negotiating the curriculum led to a doctoral class becoming a safe space and how this negotiation …
Promoting Access Through Segregation: The Emergence Of The "Prioritized Curriculum" Class, Jessica Bacon, Carrie E. Rood, Beth A. Ferri
Promoting Access Through Segregation: The Emergence Of The "Prioritized Curriculum" Class, Jessica Bacon, Carrie E. Rood, Beth A. Ferri
Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works
The continuously evolving standards-based reform (SBR) movement is one of the most prominent features of today's educational policy landscape. As SBR has continued to drive educational policy, local schools and districts have adopted many approaches to comply with legal mandates. This article critically examines one particular resultant phenomenon of the SBR movement-the emergence of a new track of self-contained classes called Prioritized Curriculum classes, designed to provide students with disabilities access to standards-based general education curriculum, but in a segregated class. In this article we document the emergence of such courses and critically analyze the rationales and policy loopholes that …
The Politics And Practice Of Literacy Pedagogy: Ideology And Outcomes In Two Racially Diverse Settings, Margaret Freedson, Wayne Eastman
The Politics And Practice Of Literacy Pedagogy: Ideology And Outcomes In Two Racially Diverse Settings, Margaret Freedson, Wayne Eastman
Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works
Discussing ideologically opposing views of beginning reading, the authors trace the politics of reading curriculum in two racially diverse New Jersey school districts working to raise the literacy achievement of traditionally underserved students through socially just literacy education.
Freezing Out Injustice: Using Ice To Foster Democratic Inquiry, Monica Taylor, Emily J Klein, Liz Carletta
Freezing Out Injustice: Using Ice To Foster Democratic Inquiry, Monica Taylor, Emily J Klein, Liz Carletta
Department of Teaching and Learning Scholarship and Creative Works
In an urban teacher residency program, preservice science teachers experience what it’s like to teach for social justice through the use of a democratic inquiry stance, thus moving toward an understanding of teaching for social justice as larger than one individual teacher in a classroom.