The Conversation of Critical Practice: Pre-service Teachers As Educators for Social Justice

  • Patricia E. Calderwood
  • , Morgan Mazza
  • , Abiah Ruel
  • , Amy Favano
  • , Vonick Jean-Guilluame
  • , Dan McNeill
  • , Carolyn Stenerson

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Abstract

In this paper we examine aspects of the construction of authentic membership, competence, and sense of shared purpose within a professional community of educators accomplished by a class of pre-service teachers during a spontaneous electronic conversation. Implications for teacher education are considered.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Volume2
StatePublished - Jan 1 2008

Keywords

  • teacher education
  • community of practice
  • critical pedagogy
  • social justice

Disciplines

  • Education

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