Engaging and Working in Solidarity with Local Communities in Preparing the Teachers of Their Children

Autor/inn/en	Zeichner, Ken; Bowman, Michael; Guillen, Lorena; Napolitan, Kate
Titel	Engaging and Working in Solidarity with Local Communities in Preparing the Teachers of Their Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Teacher Education, 67 (2016) 4, S.277-290 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4871
DOI	10.1177/0022487116660623
Schlagwörter	Teacher Education; Group Unity; Cooperation; School Community Relationship; Mentors; Preservice Teachers; Teacher Education Programs; Research Universities; Preservice Teacher Education; Social Justice; Family School Relationship; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Surveys; Interviews; Focus Groups; Observation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Gruppenidentität; Co-operation; Kooperation; Forschungseinrichtung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung
Abstract	This article analyzes a programmatic effort in teacher education, "The Community Teaching Strand" (CTS), to engage local community members as mentors of teacher candidates (TCs) in two postgraduate teacher preparation programs in a large research university. Three different conceptions of the nature and purpose of teacher-family-community relations frame the analysis: "involving" families and communities, "engaging" families and communities, and "working in solidarity" with families and communities. Three primary research questions are explored in this article: What do TCs learn through their participation in the CTS? To what extent and how do TCs bring community teaching into their classrooms during the program and as first-year teachers? What programmatic features encouraged and/or constrained TC learning from the community mentors? After describing Mountain City's "Community Teaching Strand," the article identifies a set of TC learning and practice outcomes as well as a number of tensions that arose in the programs in the attempt to implement engagement and solidarity approaches to working with families and communities. Finally, the implications of this work for teacher education are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01