Abstract
The author draws on the voices of beginning teachers in a particular teacher education program and his own experiences as a teacher educator in several different settings to account for preservice teacher reflection and resistance to rationale-based social studies teacher education. Twelve categories represent the perspectives of beginning social studies student teachers. Some are directly related to larger explanatory frameworks offered by teacher education research. Others reflect commonplace tensions in the university classroom. These twelve categories of reflection and resistance in rationale-based teacher education may serve as starting points for thinking about more effective approaches to helping beginning teachers answer the powerful question-- what are you teaching for?
Recommended Citation
Dinkelman, T. (2009). Reflection and Resistance: Challenges of Rationale-based Teacher Education. Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2 (1). Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jiae/vol2/iss1/6
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