Exploring Place and Practicing Justice: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for Success in Rural Schools

Autor/inn/en	Azano, Amy Price; Stewart, Trevor Thomas
Titel	Exploring Place and Practicing Justice: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for Success in Rural Schools
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Rural Education, 30 (2015) 9, (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-0670
Schlagwörter	Rural Schools; Preservice Teachers; Preservice Teacher Education; Social Theories; Teacher Competencies; Questionnaires; Student Attitudes; Teacher Qualifications; Content Area Reading; Essays; Student Characteristics; Background; Self Efficacy; Teacher Student Relationship; Barriers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Gesellschaftstheorie; Lehrkunst; Fragebogen; Schülerverhalten; Lehrqualifikation; Sinnerfassendes Lesen; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Hintergrundinformation; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung
Abstract	This article examines efforts made by a teacher preparation program to provide pre-service teachers with an introduction to the rural context, strategies for place-based pedagogy, and a field experience in rural schools. The study explores the influence of these efforts, along with how students' sense of place and educational upbringing, might be related to pre-service teachers' perceptions of preparedness for teaching in a rural school. The struggle to recruit and retain highly qualified teachers in rural schools is ubiquitous in the literature on rural education, but there is limited research on preparing pre-service teachers for rural schools. We draw on critical and socio cultural theories to understand the experiences of four teacher candidates as they negotiate their personal histories, expectations, and experiences in rural teaching contexts. While exposure to rural life has been credited with increasing the likelihood for teaching in rural schools, we suggest that exposure is only one aspect of preparing successful rural teachers. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Penn State University College of Education, Center on Rural Education and Communities. 310B Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802. Tel: 814-863-2031; Web site: http://www.jrre.psu.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01