Teacher Inquiry as Teacher Education

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Narratives of Experience in Teacher Education Programs (Table 26)

Abstract

We set out to explore the role of research, and more specifically, teacher inquiry, in informing the understanding of education students/future teachers about their work with students of diverse backgrounds. We were guided by the following question in our research - What might pre-service teachers learn about the school experiences of students of diverse backgrounds through a teacher inquiry research project? We examined the idea of teacher inquiry as a way for pre-service teachers to learn about the work of teachers. We explore teacher inquiry, conducted by pre-service teachers and guided by teacher educators in university-based education courses, as a way to address some of the questions at the core of tensions between university-based and school-based teacher education programs.

Authors

• Elaine Chan, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Vicki Ross, Northern Arizona University