Washing Our Students Clean: Internal Conflicts in Response to Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices

This article presents the nontraditional research of four teacher educators who used their own stories about teaching and their responses to those stories to problematize their work with preservice elementary education teachers. The data were analyzed using qualitative data methods of coding, catego...

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Published in:Journal of teacher education 2004-03, Vol.55 (2), p.164-176
Main Authors: Toll, Cathy A., Nierstheimer, Susan L., Lenski, Susan Davis, Kolloff, Penny Britton
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Educational personnel
Educational sciences
Elementary school teachers
Methods
Self study
Teacher attitudes
Teacher education
Teachers
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Summary:This article presents the nontraditional research of four teacher educators who used their own stories about teaching and their responses to those stories to problematize their work with preservice elementary education teachers. The data were analyzed using qualitative data methods of coding, categorizing, and interpreting. Among the themes that emerged from the analyses of their stories and responses to each other’s stories were profound emotional dimensions of their college teaching experiences. The conflicts underlying these emotions include issues of creating constructivist classrooms, the perceived dichotomy between the university and the “real world,” and educators’ desires to be both nurturing and instructive. The piece concludes with implications for other teacher educators.
ISSN:0022-4871
1552-7816
DOI:10.1177/0022487103261625