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ERIC Number: EJ569530
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-051X
Overcoming Parental Resistance to Change in a Professional Development School.
Birrell, James R.; Young, James R.; Egan, M. Winston; Ostlund, Margaret R.; Cook, Paul F.; Tibbitts, Cathy B.; Dewitt, Paul F.
Teaching and Teacher Education, v14 n3 p323-36 Apr 1998
Examined the role of two parents who helped design and implement a field-based teacher-preparation program at one professional-development school. Interviews with participants led to four main themes that illuminated the stages parents experienced: excluding breeds suspicion, holding our ground, saying the same thing, and establishing a new culture of advocacy and trust. (Author/SM)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development Schools, Program Development, Resistance to Change
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Field Based Programs