Education

Leveraging partnership research in teacher education

Document Type

Book Chapter

Abstract

In this chapter, the author discusses the case for learning from, and teaching with, youth voices, writing from his positionality as a literacy researcher and teacher educator. He offers readers multiple windows into how students in his graduate-level course—teacher candidates in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program—learned about literacies from youth voices. The author deals with the contexts of his graduate-level course and his research, highlighting a shared focus on learning from and with youth. He examines transcripts of youth exploring and enacting disciplinary literacy, and describes the impact that these transcripts had on MATs’ learning and thinking about literacies. Learning from youth voices is fundamental to cultivating an inquiry stance in teacher candidates. In addition to the partnership, individual relationships of trust with teachers and administrators made it possible for the author to observe youth in their classrooms, in an attempt to understand not only their literacies but also the “black box of school practice.

Publication Title

Partnership and Powerful Teacher Education: Growth and Challenge in an Urban Neighborhood Program

Publication Date

2019

First Page

192

Last Page

205

ISBN

9780429659003

DOI

10.4324/9780429024368-15

Keywords

youth, adolescents, reading comprehension

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