Resilience Building and Social Reconstructionist Teaching: A First-Year Teacher's Story.

Bondy, Elizabeth; McKenzie, Jim

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ERIC Number: EJ595735

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Publication Date: 1999

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Resilience Building and Social Reconstructionist Teaching: A First-Year Teacher's Story.

Bondy, Elizabeth; McKenzie, Jim

Elementary School Journal, v100 n2 p129-50 Nov 1999

Through teacher and colleague interviews, presents experiences of first-year teacher in a poor, urban elementary school and his attempts to enact a social reconstructionist curriculum. Describes student resistance to the teacher's practices and his ability to help students adjust to a new way of learning. (LBT)

Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Interviews, Resilience (Personality), Social Change, Student Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Experience, Urban Schools

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Florida

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