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ERIC Number: EJ610679
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-051X
Constructing Meaning about Literacy Difficulties: Preservice Teachers Beginning To Think about Pedagogy.
Mallette, Marla H.; Kile, R. Steven; Smith, Margaret M.; McKinney, Marilyn; Readence, John E.
Teaching and Teacher Education, v16 n5-6 p593-612 Jul-Aug 2000
Explored the meanings six preservice elementary teachers constructed about their students with reading difficulties. Information from case studies indicated that each preservice teacher's stance on meaning, while idiosyncratically based on experience, was tied to pedagogy in two distinct ways (focusing on the important role of the supervising teacher and situating themselves as a teacher within that context). (SM)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education, Instruction, Literacy Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulties, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Teachers, Teacher Role
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Case Analysis; Meaning Construction