Community field experiences shift teacher candidates’ lesson design toward place-conscious pedagogy

Evidence

Through individual check-ins, peer-to-peer support, and direct connections to course experiences, TCs were able to use the lesson plan assignment as a tool to develop their student-centered and place-conscious social studies teaching practice. Assessment of the lesson plan assignment demonstrated that TCs were able to connect Michigan’s PK-8 social studies standards to the sociocultural capital of a local community for purposeful learning opportunities. Many of the reflections from the lesson plan assignment referenced the impact of the community-engaged learning experiences in TCs’ understandings of community-based pedagogy in the social studies. Through the process of praxis, TCs engaged their emerging conscientização for meaningful and empowering learning opportunities in the social studies classroom. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 351

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows how ‘conscientização’ (Freire’s critical consciousness) is operationalized and assessed in a teacher-education context.
• XREF: connects to: Community-engaged field experiences re-teach educators the assets of local neighborhoods — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 357; Community-centered teacher education cultivates critical consciousness in future educators — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 366; Transect walks immerse educators in communities to read social conditions — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 175 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Community-engaged field experiences re-teach educators the assets of local neighborhoods #corroborates (0.92) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 357
• Transect walks immerse educators in communities to read social conditions #exemplifies (0.78) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 175
• Community-centered teacher education cultivates critical consciousness in future educators #expands (0.75) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 366