'Everybody kind of looked at me like I was from Mars:' preparing educators through qualitative service-research projects

Skills developed through qualitative research and community partnerships can be essential for developing education students' cultural competency and understandings about diverse student populations. Toward this end, we developed a qualitative 'service-research' project in a teacher ed...

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Published in:International journal of qualitative studies in education 2017-08, Vol.30 (7), p.669-687
Main Authors: Dorner, Lisa M., Kim, Sujin, Floros, Alice, Mujanovic, Midheta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bosnian
Case Studies
Child Development
Community Study
community-based research
Competency Based Teacher Education
Data Analysis
Data Collection
Demography
educator preparation
Experiential Learning
Foreign Countries
identity construction
Interpersonal Competence
Metalinguistics
Migration
Muslim
Population Trends
Preservice Teacher Education
Preservice Teachers
Qualitative Research
Racial Differences
Racial Factors
refugee
Religious Factors
Research Design
Service Learning
service-research
Student Projects
Student Research
teacher education
Undergraduate Students
Youth Problems
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Summary:Skills developed through qualitative research and community partnerships can be essential for developing education students' cultural competency and understandings about diverse student populations. Toward this end, we developed a qualitative 'service-research' project in a teacher education course focused on child development, whereby undergraduate students examined the racial, linguistic, religious, and migration experiences of youth in St. Louis, Missouri. This paper provides a snapshot of this work by defining service-research and showcasing one student research team that developed and analyzed three case studies of young women from Bosnian Muslim families in partnership with a local organization. Through an analysis and discussion of service-research and the students' results, we argue for the integration of qualitative research skills, service projects, and community partnerships into educator preparation programs.
ISSN:0951-8398
1366-5898
DOI:10.1080/09518398.2017.1309587