ERIC Number: EJ911684
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Feb
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"Did You Like Living in a Trailer? Why or Why Not?": Discourse and the Third Space in a Rural Pen Pal Exchange
Eppley, Karen; Shannon, Patrick; Gilbert, Lauren K.
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, v27 n2 p289-297 Feb 2011
This study describes efforts in a U.S. teacher education program to raise the teacher candidates' awareness of how place impacts schooling. The preservice teachers and second graders exchanged pen pal letters based on books set in contemporary rural America. The teacher candidates enacted four major discourses in the correspondence: personal, rural, global and traditional. Without connections to the children personally, as fellow rural residents or as participants in a conversation about rural life, the preservice teachers were left only to communicate through traditional and globalized discourses. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Letters (Correspondence), Rural Areas, Grade 2, Discourse Analysis, Childrens Literature, Rural Environment, Rural Population, Context Effect, Educational Environment, Interpersonal Relationship
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 2; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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