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- Title: Developing Involved and Active Citizens: The Role of Personal Practical Theories and Action Research in a Standards-Based Social Studies Classroom.
- Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 221 KB
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As a social studies program coordinator at a regional-sized institution, I typically have between 20-25 preservice candidates enrolled in my annual undergraduate methods course. However, I usually have only one to two in-service candidates each year who require an advance methods course focused on such items as the historical influences, contemporary trends, and research within the social studies field. Recently, the single student in this course was Jonathan Frye, a graduate student and seven-year veteran social studies teacher in central North Carolina. Prior to beginning the semester, Jonathan and I met to discuss the possibilities regarding the curriculum and structure of the course. Neither one of us was pleased with the notion of meeting in the traditional three-hour per week format established for the course, prompting us to deliberate about alternative models. Guiding this deliberation were two important concerns regarding any potential process. One concern was ensuring that Jonathan experienced methods well supported by the literature within the field and that such methods, once identified, matched the subject matter he instructed (see Thornton, 1997). Since Jonathan had already completed a methods course as part of his undergraduate studies, my task would be to bridge Jonathan's prior experiences with his new learning by what Alder (1994) stated as "enabling teachers to bring appropriate knowledge and experiences to bear on their classroom practice" (p. 52).
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