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ERIC Number: EJ517071
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1047-6210
Action Research Changes Cultural Attitudes.
Glasgow, Jacqueline N.
Teaching Education, v6 n2 p41-48 Sum-Fall 1994
Action research can promote cultural literacy by increasing teachers' awareness of their own values and perspectives and encouraging them to entertain perspectives different from their own. The paper describes how one prospective teacher, through classroom observation in a one-room Amish school, developed positive, culturally sensitive images and attitudes. (SM)
Descriptors: Action Research, Amish, Attitude Change, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Literacy, Elementary Education, Higher Education, One Teacher Schools, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Diversity (Students); Preservice Teachers; Reflective Thinking