Complexity and Contradiction in English and Language Arts Teachers' Perspectives on Schooling

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Abstract

This study reports baseline results from a longitudinal study of teacher beliefs and instructional practice, launched in the fall of 2014 as a panel of English and language arts teachers at three universities entered methodological coursework and internships. Using a new assessment tool, the Developmental Instruction Assessment Battery, along with a discrete choice task and one-on-one interviews, teachers reported their developing perspectives on (1) competition in the classroom, (2) hierarchies of traditional academic material, and (3) related views on classroom order, engagement, and teacher authority.

Authors

• Sean P. Kelly, University of Pittsburgh

• Yuan Zhang, University of Pittsburgh

• Laura Northrop, University of Pittsburgh

• Samantha Caughlan, Lansing, Michigan

• Jennifer Lynn VanDerHeide, Michigan State University