Pub Date : 2024-08-24DOI: 10.1177/00224871241275244
Nicholas D. Hartlep, Jon C. Saderholm, Julian Viera, Maggie Robillard, Keesha Greer-Effs, Lisa Rosenbarker, Shaniqua Robinson, Cinda Holland, Herbie Brock, Collis R. Robinson, Angela J. Cox, Heather Chapman, Joshua Woodward, Noé R. Guevara, Jennifer Whitt, Julia Allen
In this article, the Education Studies Department (ESD) at Berea College shares lessons learned while becoming an inclusive, justice-focused, and democratic Education Preparation Program (EPP) together with its “Community of Teachers” (CoT). ESD values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI+B) and democratic relationships. These values influence how we do our work. We begin by sharing how the theoretical framework of Community of Practice (CoP) frames our case study. After explaining how a CoP applies to ESD’s approach to educator preparation, we give an overview of Berea College. We share some of its history and its eight Great Commitments. We detail how ESD is a unique EPP compared with other more traditional EPPs. Next, we chronicle the story of how ESD “walks its talk” and invests in the teacher profession. We detail the participants of the case study, outline our methodology of the case study, and share the data we analyzed for this article. Data were analyzed and three emergent themes were discovered about the praxis of ESD: (a) community-engaged and justice-focused teacher preparation, (b) community building within teacher preparation programs, and (c) diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The article concludes by sharing implications for EPPs and a conclusion.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1177/00224871241268593
Thomas M. Philip, Veer B. Kothari, Andy Castro
Teacher education research, by and large, has been profoundly influenced by psychological interpretations of beliefs, particularly the assumption that teachers attempt to reconcile, rationalize, minimize, or avoid contradictions. Building on research across multiple disciplines, which demonstrates that people live harmoniously with contradictions in many situations, we argue that suppositions that people feel compelled to address contradictions have obscured the multitude of inconsistencies that teachers navigate without notice in their everyday lives. Through a multisited, in-depth analysis of a teacher across planning, teaching, debrief and interview contexts, we show that what appears to be contradictory from the perspective of researchers is not necessarily inconsistent for teachers. We explore the theoretical, methodological, and professional learning implications of this shift in interpreting teacher contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-13DOI: 10.1177/00224871241268577
Jessica Herring Watson
This qualitative, embedded single case study provides a rich description exploring the evolution of preservice teachers’ intention to use and actual use of technology-enabled learning (TEL) during student teaching. The study followed four middle-level education majors at a mid-size public teaching university in the southeastern United States during their student teaching experience (spring 2021). Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) guided this qualitative inquiry. Interviews, observations, and analysis of teaching artifacts (e.g., lesson plans, lesson reflections, and TEL artifacts) were conducted to support data triangulation. In addition to applying theory-based qualitative codes to the data, open coding was conducted to identify themes across the body of evidence. Findings extended previous TPB research regarding preservice teachers’ intention to use TEL in application use cases and yield practical implications for teacher educators seeking to increase TEL intention and use in preservice teacher populations.
这项定性、嵌入式单一案例研究提供了丰富的描述,探讨了职前教师在学生教学期间使用技术辅助学习(TEL)的意图和实际使用情况的演变。这项研究跟踪了美国东南部一所中等规模公立师范大学的四名中级教育专业学生的学生教学经历(2021 年春季)。阿曾的 "计划行为理论"(TPB)为本次定性调查提供了指导。我们通过访谈、观察和对教学工件(如教案、课程反思和电信技术工件)的分析来支持数据三角测量。除了对数据进行基于理论的定性编码外,还进行了开放式编码,以确定整个证据库的主题。研究结果扩展了以往关于职前教师在应用案例中使用 TEL 的意向的 TPB 研究,并对教师教育者提高职前教师使用 TEL 的意向产生了实际影响。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1177/00224871241268552
Ayelet Becher
Globally, enduring skepticism around professionalism in education systems has questioned the efficiency in which teachers meet students’ educational needs and their authority to do so. Presently, efforts toward professionalization in teacher education (TE) are threatened by neoliberal reforms promoting alternative pathways into teaching and performance-based accountability mechanisms to monitor teachers and schools. In the face of public mistrust and external threats, this conceptual paper aims to envision the future of TE in light of the complexities inherent to the notion of professionalism. To this end, two competing ideals of teaching, which represent co-existing conceptions of professional work in education are examined: The teacher as an expert clinician ideal entrenched in expertise-driven professionalism and the teacher as a democratic pedagogue grounded in democratic professionalism. I offer ways in which these competing discourses could be fused to set the discussion about professionalism in teaching and its implications for TE on firmer grounds.
在全球范围内,对教育系统专业化的长期怀疑质疑了教师满足学生教育需求的效 率及其权威性。目前,师范教育(TE)专业化的努力受到了新自由主义改革的威胁,这些改革提倡通过其他途径进入教师队伍,并通过基于绩效的问责机制来监督教师和学校。面对公众的不信任和外部威胁,本概念性论文旨在从专业化概念固有的复杂性出发,展望师范教育的未来。为此,本文探讨了两种相互竞争的教学理想,它们代表了并存的教育专业工作理念:一种是以专业知识为导向的专业精神中根深蒂固的教师作为临床专家的理想,另一种是以民主专业精神为基础的教师作为民主教学者的理想。我提出了将这些相互竞争的论述融合在一起的方法,以便为有关教学专业精神的讨论及其对 TE 的影响奠定更坚实的基础。
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Across the United States, current curricular reforms are centering high-quality instructional material (HQIM) as a lever for improving classroom instruction and student achievement. While multiple legislative definitions of HQIM attend primarily to the degree of standards alignment, we expand quality to encompass rigor and cultural responsiveness. As teachers make decisions about curriculum materials, they demonstrate curriculum literacy. We conceptualize curriculum literacy as the capacity to navigate teacher identities, learner and community assets, and instructional materials. We survey the literature related to curriculum, curriculum literacy, and teacher education. We then present a framework for curriculum literacy in initial teacher preparation and describe three instructional tools for developing preservice teachers’ curriculum literacy. These tools support teachers’ practices of critically reflecting on their identities in relation to curriculum, contextualizing curricular decisions, and evaluating existing instructional materials. Implications for policy, practice, and future research are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-25DOI: 10.1177/00224871241263337
Amy Tondreau, Wendy L. Gardiner, Tierney B. Hinman, Tess M. Dussling, Elizabeth Y. Stevens, Kristen L. White, Nance S. Wilson
Many teacher educators seek to implement culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in their courses. However, enactment is often mediated by our socialization into whiteness and niceness. This study investigates how our self-study community of practice (SSCoP) of eight White female literacy teacher educators at different institutions collaborated to narrow the gap between our aspirations for implementing CRP and enacted practice. Through analysis of collaborative journal entries, we interpret tensions between what niceness and whiteness demand of us and what enactment of CRP requires: (a) between centering equity in our courses and addressing equity on the margins, (b) between enactment of critical pedagogy and maintaining status as “nice” educators, and (c) between the expectation of expertise and the necessity of a learning stance. We argue that teacher educators might use SSCoP spaces to navigate the complex interplay between their identities and the sociopolitical context of teacher education to more fully enact CRP.
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Pub Date : 2024-06-22DOI: 10.1177/00224871241259782
Margaret Caspe, Reyna Hernandez
Preparing educators to engage families and communities is one of the most promising ways to improve student learning and build equitable schools. In this commentary, authors from the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement explore the landscape of educator preparation for family and community engagement and describe a framework created to reimagine how educators are prepared for this important work. The commentary also highlights outcomes and promising practices from nine collaboratives of educator preparation programs and family, school, and community partners redesigning coursework, clinical experiences, programs, and systems to bring families and communities to the center of the educator preparation process.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-08DOI: 10.1177/00224871241247777
Eric Richter, Tim Fütterer, Arthur Eisenkraft, Christian Fischer
Situated in the context of advanced placement (AP) reform in the United States, we investigated profiles of teachers’ motivation for participating in professional development (PD) courses in a two-cohort sample of nt1 = 2,369 and nt2 = 2,170 chemistry teachers via multilevel latent class analysis. In addition, the study investigated to what extent profile membership was related to factors at the teacher, school, and PD levels. Participation in PD courses was associated with one of three profiles, labeled “reform-motivated,” “convenience-motivated,” and “interaction-motivated.” Participation in PD courses was more likely to be reform-motivated if a teacher had a major in chemistry, more experience teaching AP, more positive attitudes toward PD, or higher enactment of AP redesign in the classroom, or if the PD course was formal and face-to-face. The results show that teachers have different motivations for participating in PD courses and provide insight into how to engage teachers in professional learning.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1177/00224871241236001
James O’Meara, Meher Rizvi, Maria Assunção Flores, Cheryl J. Craig, John H. Samuels, Valerie Hill-Jackson
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Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1177/00224871241239040
Andrew J. Schiera, Nicole Mittenfelner Carl, Jasmine Marshall-Butler
To live justice-oriented commitments in teaching practice, approaches spanning Social Justice Teacher Education, the Core Practice Movement, and Context-specific Teacher Preparation might dovetail by identifying “social justice core practices” (SJCPs) novices learn to enact. At the intersection of the situated and critical perspectives underlying these three approaches, this study investigates the SJCPs of Philadelphia educators and how they characterize their contextuality. A modified Delphi study drawing on the expertise of 27 local social justice educators revealed group consensus on 13 SJCPs. Further qualitative analysis surfaced four patterns related to contextuality: SJCPs as responses to macrosociopolitical inequities, manifesting critical praxis; the role of school, district, and professional constraints; the need to situate and adapt SJCPs for the subject area and grade level; and the inseparability of identity and positionality from enactment. From this site-specific approach positioning local educators as experts, implications for teacher education’s role in shaping a more justice-oriented profession are discussed.
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