ERIC Number: EJ726964
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 10
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-4871
Preparing Teachers for Inclusive Classrooms
Hamre, Britt; Oyler, Celia
Journal of Teacher Education, v55 n2 p154-163 2004
Designing preservice teacher education partially around voluntary study groups offers teacher educators a unique chance to examine group members' perspectives and understandings. This article examines the topics of concern and questions expressed by six general education student teachers in a collaborative dialogue group focused on inclusive classrooms. Culled from seven meeting transcripts over the course of one semester, we extracted the themes of inexperience, equity, levels, normalcy, labels, and belonging as presented by these teachers in their individual inquiries into inclusive education. We consider how useful the themes, tensions, and issues unearthed in this research are for constructing a preservice teacher education curriculum for inclusive teacher preparation.
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Student Teachers, Inclusive Schools, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Mainstreaming
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Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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