Taking a Walk in the Community: Learning by Listening

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Abstract

If teachers are to engage in the "remedy, repair, and renewal" necessary for sustaining teaching, learning, and education through increasingly complex local contexts, they must begin from listening and learning from the very students they will teach. This should begin from entering the very space and the very communities where those students have begun their own learning. This study describes the implementation of community walks as a way to pre-service teachers to diverse communities and develop their knowledge of diversity and their sociocultural awareness.

Author

• Frank Pignatosi, New York University