ERIC Number: EJ1167866
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 23
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"Seeing the Everyday through New Lenses": Pedagogies and Practices of Literacy Teacher Educators with a Critical Stance
Dharamshi, Pooja
Teacher Education Quarterly, v45 n1 p7-29 Win 2018
This article explores the practices and pedagogies of six literacy teacher educators with a critical stance. In this qualitative research study, three semi-structured interviews were conducted with each participant over a three-year period. They were able to negotiate a critical stance into their teacher education courses in several ways: using an expansive definition of literacy; helping student teachers shed deficit perspectives; and integrating popular culture and media in the curriculum. The LTEs conceptualizations of literacy transcended traditional notions such as literacy as a set of autonomous skills (e.g., reading, writing) to include expansive notions of literacy including out of school literacy practices such as home literacies and community literacies. The literacy teacher educators modeled valuing expansive conceptions of literacy by including a wide range of texts in their courses, including: videos, blogs, spoken word, spaces, theatre, and social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook). The teacher educators' progressive views of literacy were negotiated into their classroom by creating invitations for student teachers to disrupt their assumptions of literacy. Implications for literacy teacher education courses include incorporating a range of texts and genres, which model expansive understandings of literacy, while modeling for student teachers how to effectively integrate them into literacy teaching. Implications for pre-service teacher education programs include building partnerships in the community including both traditional (e.g., schools) and non-traditional (e.g., community centers) learning spaces.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Literacy, Teacher Educators, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Student Teachers, Popular Culture, Literacy Education, Multiple Literacies, Video Technology, Electronic Publishing, Theater Arts, Social Media, Teacher Attitudes, Literary Genres, Teacher Education Programs, Partnerships in Education, Critical Literacy, College Faculty, Grounded Theory
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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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