Headaches and Humility: Introducing Preservice Teachers to Undergraduate Research
For some teacher educators, the singular goal of teacher preparation is to license new teachers, not develop critical thinkers. This lack of thinking beyond lesson plans, course standards, and classroom management to explore high impact practices – such as undergraduate research – leads to the deter...
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Portland State University
2022-05-01
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| description | For some teacher educators, the singular goal of teacher preparation is to license new teachers, not develop critical thinkers. This lack of thinking beyond lesson plans, course standards, and classroom management to explore high impact practices – such as undergraduate research – leads to the deterioration of the education field and limits preservice teachers’ understandings of their own curricular and pedagogical practices. This article is a poetic reflection – through headaches and humility – on how 157 preservice teachers (PTs) made connections between curricular research and practice. The article also addresses steps taken by a teacher educator to ensure their success and mechanisms to overcome preservice teachers’ (as well as other teacher educators’) perceptions that educators do not need research skills. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-70e52d7f793d40368701c36a6d3701a12022-12-22T03:25:41ZengPortland State UniversityNorthwest Journal of Teacher Education2638-40352022-05-0117210.15760/nwjte.2022.17.2.10Headaches and Humility: Introducing Preservice Teachers to Undergraduate ResearchJ. Scott Baker0St. Cloud State UniversityFor some teacher educators, the singular goal of teacher preparation is to license new teachers, not develop critical thinkers. This lack of thinking beyond lesson plans, course standards, and classroom management to explore high impact practices – such as undergraduate research – leads to the deterioration of the education field and limits preservice teachers’ understandings of their own curricular and pedagogical practices. This article is a poetic reflection – through headaches and humility – on how 157 preservice teachers (PTs) made connections between curricular research and practice. The article also addresses steps taken by a teacher educator to ensure their success and mechanisms to overcome preservice teachers’ (as well as other teacher educators’) perceptions that educators do not need research skills.https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37633Undergraduate researchteacher preparationpoetic inquiry |
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