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Richards, Janet C.; And Others – 1989
This study of student teachers' reflective abilities defines reflecting about teaching as the capability and willingness of prospective teachers to question and critically analyze their teaching and teaching experiences. In discussing differences between student teachers in psychological and personal dimensions, the characteristics examined were:…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Richards, Janet C.; And Others – 1992
This study was conducted to examine the value of analyzing student teachers' metaphors for purposes of early identification of beliefs and teaching orientations. Participants were 2 university professors and 23 female elementary education majors enrolled in a reading/language arts methods course designed as an early field placement. During the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Content Analysis, Education Majors, Elementary Education
Richards, Janet C.; Gipe, Joan P.; Moore, Ramona C. – 2000
This paper describes challenges associated with preparing preservice teachers in the 21st century to accept responsibility for devising and presenting lessons that link reading and writing with multiple sign and symbol systems, such as drama, musical composing, film, visual art, and computer technology. It proposes the portal school concept as a…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs
Richards, Janet C.; And Others – 1996
This paper presents information regarding two university field programs in two elementary schools in New Orleans (Louisiana), serving culturally diverse children, and it attempts to reveal the influences of each school context on preservice teachers' acquisition of pedagogical content knowledge, their concerns and dilemmas, and their frames of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Context Effect, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Philosophy
Richards, Janet C.; Gipe, Joan P. – 1993
This paper presents the story of a university/public school collaborative program that in June 1991 was awarded the American Association of Higher Education's Presidents' Forum Award for Exemplary Work in Accelerating Minority Achievement. The Louisiana program was implemented by the College of Education of the University of New Orleans and two…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning
Richards, Janet C.; And Others – 1994
The purpose of this longitudinal qualitative inquiry was to describe the socially constructed, negotiated, and contextual nature of an early field placement in an urban elementary school. The objectives were to document subtle changes over time in preservice teachers' reading/language arts subject matter knowledge and teaching beliefs and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary Education, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education