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50 Years of ERIC
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Martinez, Elizabeth; Ulanoff, Sharon H. – Teaching Education, 2013
This narrative study examines how Latino parents and teachers in the Boyle Heights/East Los Angeles community create and appropriate social capital to increase student achievement. Specifically, the study explores how parents and teachers participate in two community organizations to extend resources that have the potential to positively impact…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Justice, Social Capital, Social Support Groups
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Widding, Goran – Teaching Education, 2013
Based on 30 interviews with teachers and parents conducted in a Swedish compulsory school, this article discusses the current growing body of research on home-school relations that stress the importance of parents' engagement and involvement as a key factor that influences pupils' academic performance. The focus is on gendered practices in…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Family School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Foreign Countries
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Miller, Gloria E.; Lines, Cathy; Sullivan, Erin; Hermanutz, Kirsten – Teaching Education, 2013
The present study focuses on current efforts underway in one western US state to prepare educators' for meaningful participation with families. Directors and faculty from 43 accredited Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) preparing pre-service teachers, administrators, and student support personnel were asked to complete an online survey…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, College Faculty, Schools of Education, Family Involvement
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Klein, Emily J.; Taylor, Monica; Onore, Cynthia; Strom, Kathryn; Abrams, Linda – Teaching Education, 2013
This paper describes an urban teacher residency program, the Newark Montclair Urban Teacher Residency, a collaborative endeavor between the Newark, New Jersey Public Schools and Montclair State University, built on a decades-long partnership. The authors see the conceptual work of developing this program as creating a "third space" in teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Epistemology, Teacher Education Curriculum
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McLean, Cheryl A.; Rowsell, Jennifer – Teaching Education, 2013
The article features a graduate literacy teacher education course that compelled students to think in terms of design and multimodality. In an effort to innovate our own literacy teacher education work, we came together to devise a course that encouraged students to adopt a design lens to their thinking, planning, and assessing of literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teacher Education, Learning Processes, Multiple Literacies
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Teaching Education, 2013
This paper discusses the role of emotions in mobilizing implicit activisms--that is, small-scale, personal, and modest activisms--in schools. For this purpose, the discussion evokes the notion of critical emotional reflexivity to illuminate how creating spaces for critical reflection on emotions may contribute to making implicit activisms more…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Psychological Patterns, Sustainability, Activism
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Avila, JuliAnna – Teaching Education, 2013
This paper is a course description of a Digital Literacies class offered to both undergraduate and graduate students at an American university. The purpose of this paper is: (1) to describe the pedagogical bones of this course, drawing upon theories of learning in a participatory culture, including a discussion of how, and where, the course fell…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Graduate Students, Course Descriptions, Reflection
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Polat, Nihat; Mahalingappa, Laura – Teaching Education, 2013
This study documents differences between pre- and in-service content area teachers' beliefs about: whether English language learners (ELLs) should be included in content area classes, the kind of instructional support (IS) they should receive, and responsibility for ELLs' language and academic achievement. Questionnaire data were collected from 94…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Content Area Reading
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Turunen, Tuija A.; Tuovila, Seija – Teaching Education, 2012
In this article, we describe a collegial case study conducted in one Finnish university during the last field experience in a primary school teacher education program and discuss pedagogy of supervision from university supervisors' perspectives. The aim of the study was to clarify the role of university supervisors and try out a collegial…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teacher Education Programs, Experiential Learning, Language Skills
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Guillory, Nichole A. – Teaching Education, 2012
This research essay is intended to situate the curriculum in my multicultural education courses--of talking back through autobiographical inquiry--within real schools, a site where curriculum theorists rarely situate their work. The literature by curriculum theorists that precedes my study generally has focused on how pre-service teachers in…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Multicultural Education, Student Teacher Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Jones, Stephanie – Teaching Education, 2012
The present article draws on data from a three-year study of pedagogy in teacher education that attempts to disrupt normative structures of reading and being in the teacher education classroom. The author uses Bourdieu's work to emphasize the ways in which academic fields become ruled by unspoken rules and practices--"nomos"--and demonstrates a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Research, Trauma, Educational Practices
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Hsu, Pi-Sui – Teaching Education, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the impact of educational technology courses on pre-service teachers' development of knowledge of technology integration in a teacher preparation program in the USA. The present study was conducted with eight pre-service teachers enrolled in the elementary teacher education program at a large…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Technology Integration, Program Effectiveness
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Clarke, Anthony; Collins, John; Triggs, Valerie; Nielsen, Wendy; Augustine, Ann; Coulter, Dianne; Cunningham, Joni; Grigoriadis, Tina; Hardman, Stephanie; Hunter, Lee; Kinegal, Jane; Li, Bianca; Mah, Jeff; Mastin, Karen; Partridge, David; Pawer, Leonard; Rasoda,Sandy; Salbuvik, Kathleen; Ward, Mitch; White, Janet; Weil, Frederick – Teaching Education, 2012
We report on the origins, development and refinement of an online inventory to help cooperating teachers focus on selected dimensions of their practice. The Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI) helps quantify important features of both the motivating and challenging aspects of mentoring student teachers and provides results to respondents in a…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Practicum Supervision, Mentors, Student Teachers
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Hardee, Sheri C.; Thompson, Candace M.; Jennings, Louise B.; Aragon, Antonette; Brantmeier, Edward J. – Teaching Education, 2012
Using first-person accounts of classroom experiences, five professors examine the intersection of social foundations and borderland theory and their efforts to move students through resistance to understanding and affirmation of sociocultural diversity. The authors present this paper in two parts, the first providing examples of using a borderland…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Introductory Courses, Multicultural Education
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Sulentic Dowell, Margaret-Mary – Teaching Education, 2012
Teaching quality impacts classroom instruction. Teaching is difficult, demanding and draining work; teaching in urban environs exacerbates the difficulties, the demands and the complexities of teaching. Through the eyes of an assistant superintendent, charged with implementing a new vision for literacy teaching and learning, this manuscript…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Intervention, Teacher Characteristics
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