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Goldstein, Tara – Teaching Education, 2014
While the call for teacher education students to learn about their students' family and community lives remains urgent and compelling, educating teachers about the Other is tricky business. In this article I discuss the use of two performed ethnographies, "Harriet's House" and "Ana's Shadow," to provide opportunities for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Ethnography
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Hands, Catherine – Teaching Education, 2013
Parent engagement plays an essential role in student achievement and well-being, but not all families are able to participate in their children's education. This article focuses on strategies for reaching and supporting parents who face challenges to engagement such as poverty and cultural diversity. Five district-level parent engagement projects…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Schools of Education
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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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Russell, Vanessa Tamara – Teaching Education, 2010
Although all teachers are expected to be "role models," discursive trajectories reaching back to the West's gay liberation pressure queer teachers to be role models in specific ways--by "coming out" and helping queer students out of their "time of difficulty." Paradoxically, discourses that construct children as…
Descriptors: Role Models, Confidentiality, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality
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Ogden, Holly; DeLuca, Christopher; Searle, Michelle – Teaching Education, 2010
There is increasing concern over disengagement of teacher candidates during on-campus periods of pre-service programs due to the perceived disconnect between educational theory and practice. In response, teacher education has been called to engage candidates in praxis through authentic learning. In this paper, we bring together the fields of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Focus Groups, Interviews, Learning Experience
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Duncan, Heather E.; Barnett, John – Teaching Education, 2010
This case study explored the educational experiences of Canadian preservice teachers in a course designed to teach about online teaching. Students gained experience in course design and delivery, and safe and ethical behavior related to technology. Findings indicated that projects in which students actively applied their knowledge were more…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Online Courses, Ethics, Teaching Methods
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den Heyer, Kent – Teaching Education, 2009
In this study, a group of teacher educators converse about their teaching practice in light of a new provincial K-12 program of social studies. The most noteworthy feature of this new program is its explicit call for teachers to include Aboriginal and Francophone perspectives as they teach to the program's two central themes of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
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Daniel, Beverly-Jean – Teaching Education, 2009
This paper explores the efficacy of employing the cohort model of teacher education for preparing pre-service teachers to address issues of race within an urban university setting. The results of the research indicate that the cohort facilitates a degree of familiarity and support amongst the teacher candidates, provides exposure to diverse…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Universities, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Teacher Attitudes
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Rowsell, Jennifer; Kosnik, Clare; Beck, Clive – Teaching Education, 2008
Teacher education for literacy teaching is often fairly narrow in focus. New approaches are needed that are sociocultural in orientation and take due account of the diversity of language forms, both traditional and contemporary, formal and informal, literary and non-literary. We believe this need can be met by largely adopting a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Wallin, Jason – Teaching Education, 2008
From October 2004 to June 2006 I worked as a curriculum leader across 18 elementary schools as part of an Alberta Incentive for School Improvement (AISI) project focused on the reform question "How does inquiry transform learning environments?". In support of professional development, I worked closely with teachers in discussion,…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools
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Goldstein, Tara; Russell, Vanessa; Daley, Andrea – Teaching Education, 2007
This article introduces a conceptual framework for thinking about the development of anti-homophobia education in teacher education and schooling contexts. We bring the safe, positive, and queering moments framework to bear on three distinct anti-homophobia education practices: coming out stories, homophobic name-calling analysis, and Pride Week…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Teacher Education, Social Bias, Educational Practices
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Dion, Susan D. – Teaching Education, 2007
This paper explores the complexities of teachers' understanding of their relationship with Aboriginal people. Drawing on her current work with teachers, the author offers a method for initiating a critical pedagogy of remembrance that allows teachers to attend to and learn from the biography of their relationship with Aboriginal people. The author…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives, Teacher Education
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Chan, Carol K. K.; van Aalst, Jan – Teaching Education, 2006
In Hong Kong and Canada, indeed globally, slogans about learning to learn and teaching for 21st-century knowledge and skills are common. However, there are few examples of how teacher education courses or programs are responding to these new demands. In this paper, we propose a framework for designing teacher education premised on the theoretical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Fettes, Mark – Teaching Education, 2005
Teacher education, the process of becoming a teacher and aiding others to become teachers, is in part a journey of imaginative development. Students come to imagine teaching, and themselves as teachers, in new ways. This essay reports on an attempt to use ideas about imagination in teaching and learning as the central theme of the first semester…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Imagination, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
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de Freitas, Elizabeth – Teaching Education, 2005
This paper draws from theorists in critical pedagogy and cultural studies in order to name and then trace the re-inscription and circulation of normative whiteness in geographically isolated rural communities. The paper examines a particular rural Canadian maritime community where my role as teacher-educator and my commitment to developing…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Critical Theory, Rural Areas, Literary Criticism
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