Justice and Practice: Tensions in the Development of Social Justice (Teacher) Educators / Andrew J Schiera.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Schiera, Andrew J., author.

Contributor:

Ravitch, Sharon M., degree supervisor.

Rust, Francis, degree committee member.

Reisman, Abby, degree committee member.

University of Pennsylvania. Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teacher education.

Pedagogy.

Secondary education.

Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education.

Local Subjects:

Teacher education.

Pedagogy.

Secondary education.

Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages)

Contained In:

Dissertation Abstracts International 79-01A(E).

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]: University of Pennsylvania ; Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

This dissertation explores how pre-service teachers conceptualize the relationship between justice and practice, and then navigate the tensions of their student teaching context to enact their beliefs in their teaching practice. Starting from the assumption that all teachers must understand how their practice challenges rather than reproduces inequities, this proposal's theoretical framework explicates four elements of a social justice educator: an orientation towards justice, a critical frame for understanding the relationship between macro-level structures and micro-level interactions, and conceptual and practical tools to live this in one's practice/praxis. A literature review of Social Justice Teacher Education (SJTE) and Practice-based Teacher Education (PBTE) along these four dimensions suggests complementary possibilities for facilitating the preparation of social justice educators. The qualitative study, leveraging practitioner research methodologies, how pre-service teachers developed the conceptual and practical tools of social justice educators. Findings pre-service teachers suggest that pre-service teachers varied in their conceptualizations of how teachers acted towards more just outcomes, and in their relation of their teaching aims to the real world. Additionally, pre-service teachers responded to tensions they countered in their particular school context by planning and enacting units of instruction that fulfilled their teaching aims, responded to the contextualized tensions, reflected their conceptualizations of justice, and met their students' needs.

Notes:

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Advisors: Sharon M. Ravitch; Committee members: Abby Reisman; Francis Rust.

Department: Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education.

Ed.D. University of Pennsylvania 2017.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175

ISBN:

9780355219012

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.