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"They Might Know a Lot of Things That I Don't Know": Investigating Differences in Preservice Teachers' Ideas about Contextualizing Science Instruction in Multilingual Classrooms
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Tolbert, Sara; Knox, Corey – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This paper describes the results from a qualitative study of 72 preservice teachers' initial ideas about contextualizing science instruction with language minority students. Participants drew primarily on local ecological and multicultural contexts as resources for contextualizing instruction. However, preservice teachers enrolled in the bilingual…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Misconceptions
"So We Have to Teach Them or What?": Introducing Preservice Teachers to the Figured Worlds of Urban Youth through Digital Conversation
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Seglem, Robyn; Garcia, Antero – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: Extant literature contends that it can be difficult for White preservice teachers to develop culturally relevant curriculum for the diverse students whom they will encounter in classrooms. Though there is a significant body of research about culturally responsive pedagogy, teacher education programs have struggled with how to best…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Culturally Relevant Education, Urban Youth