ERIC Number: EJ1143044
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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"Everybody Kind of Looked at Me Like I Was from Mars:" Preparing Educators through Qualitative Service-Research Projects
Dorner, Lisa M.; Kim, Sujin; Floros, Alice; Mujanovic, Midheta
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v30 n7 p669-687 2017
Skills developed through qualitative research and community partnerships can be essential for developing education students' cultural competency and understandings about diverse student populations. Toward this end, we developed a qualitative "service-research" project in a teacher education course focused on child development, whereby undergraduate students examined the racial, linguistic, religious, and migration experiences of youth in St. Louis, Missouri. This paper provides a snapshot of this work by defining service-research and showcasing one student research team that developed and analyzed three case studies of young women from Bosnian Muslim families in partnership with a local organization. Through an analysis and discussion of service-research and the students' results, we argue for the integration of qualitative research skills, service projects, and community partnerships into educator preparation programs.
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Interpersonal Competence, Competency Based Teacher Education, Undergraduate Students, Child Development, Service Learning, Community Study, Racial Factors, Racial Differences, Religious Factors, Migration, Metalinguistics, Youth Problems, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Demography, Population Trends, Experiential Learning, Student Projects, Data Collection, Research Design, Data Analysis, Student Research, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Missouri
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