ERIC Number: EJ1193876
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 21
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New Programmatic Possibilities: (Re) Positioning Preservice Teachers of Color as Experts in Their Own Learning
Pham, Josephine H.
Teacher Education Quarterly, v45 n4 p51-71 Fall 2018
Efforts to recruit and retain Teachers of Color are rarely accompanied by policy and programmatic changes that adequately address their unique learning needs. In this article, I propose a framework that draws on sociocultural learning theory and Critical Race Theory to examine how programmatic structures embedded in a racially structured society marginalize the learning needs of preservice Teachers of Color committed to social justice. Recognizing a need to challenge racially hierarchical learning models within teacher preparation programs, I utilize my proposed framework to consider new programmatic possibilities when preservice Teachers of Color are simultaneously positioned as experts and learners in one another's student teaching experiences. Through a qualitative analysis of the peer learning experiences between two preservice Teachers of Color, in this study, I offer conceptual tools to examine the complex intersections and tensions between learning structures, social processes, and the experiential knowledge of People of Color. I also offer implications for teacher preparation programs in an effort to (re)organize cultural practices that center the learning needs of preservice Teachers of Color.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Learning Theories, Critical Theory, Race, Social Justice, Preservice Teacher Education, Minority Group Students, Expertise, Student Teaching, Peer Teaching, Social Influences, Experience, Culturally Relevant Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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