Instructor Perceptions’ of a Social Education Program’s Effectiveness within Teacher Education: A Mixed Methods Study

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Abstract

Implementing Social Education programming into preservice teacher coursework with critical pedagogies, cultural studies, and place-based education prepares students for teaching in diverse settings with diverse populations. This explanatory sequential mixed methods study with qualitative priority investigates teacher educators’ perspectives regarding the effectiveness of the Social Education programming within the teacher education program at a large, urban, research university. The main research question of this study: what are the perceptions of the effectiveness of the Social Education program within the teacher education program? Participants are undergraduate teacher education course instructors. A survey questionnaire, semi-structured focus group and individual interviews collect data.

Author

• Anne Aydinian Perry, University of Houston