A Journey to Critical Citizenship Education: Preservice Teachers' Citizenship Conceptions, Curricular Choices, and Pedagogical Practices

• In Event: Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: Preparation of Preservice Teachers in Social Studies

Abstract

This longitudinal qualitative multiple-case study explored secondary social studies pre-service teachers’ developing citizenship understandings and enactment of their citizenship conceptions within the social studies teacher education program and their full-year field experience, based upon a critical citizenship framework. Findings indicate an explicit emphasis on critical citizenship within social studies teacher education courses assisted pre-service teachers in developing more complex citizenship conceptions and ideas regarding civic action and these understandings were enacted primarily through democratic participatory pedagogy within their field experiences. An implication of this study underscores the need for social studies teacher education programs to be grounded in transformative ideas that prepare social studies pre-service teachers to teach all students for a diverse democratic and just society.

Authors

• Sunny Wells, Baylor University

• Brooke Blevins, Baylor University