Transformations of Teachers, Learners, and Identities

• In Event: Roundtable Session 116

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session brings together research that examines ways of understanding and creating transformation in the identities of teachers and learners. Papers examine ways of understanding and promoting the development of persons with disabilities, the development incurred when minority students engage as activists, and development of beginning teachers understandings of knowledge (PCK)and their effectiveness as teachers.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Cultural-Historical Research

Chair

• Emily Duvall, University of Idaho

Papers

• Dis/abling Autistic Student in the Context of Community College - Dusana Podlucka, The Graduate Center - CUNY

• Peer Activist Learning and Identity Development in a Community College - Naja Berg Hougaard, The Graduate Center - CUNY; Eduardo V. Vianna, LaGuardia Community College - CUNY

• Vygotsky and Defectology: Creating Contexts for Alternative Developmental Pathways toward Conventional Cultural Ends - Peter Smagorinsky, University of Georgia