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Cultivating a justice orientation toward citizenship in preservice elementary teachers

    1. [1] Boise State University

      Boise State University

      Estados Unidos

    2. [2] University of Alabama in Huntsville

      University of Alabama in Huntsville

      Estados Unidos

  • Localización: Theory and research in social education, ISSN 0093-3104, Vol. 43, Nº 3, 2015, págs. 405-434
  • Idioma: inglés
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    • Teacher educators have an obligation to prepare preservice teachers with the skills and dispositions necessary to promote a socially just world. Yet the results of this study uncovered that the majority of elementary preservice teachers in a national sample (N = 846) have a simplistic perception of good citizenship consistent with what Westheimer and Kahne called a “personally responsible” model of citizenship.

      Follow-up interviews with 21 participants revealed a problematic trend among 14 participants:

      inadequate content knowledge and minimal support or even resistance to socially just action. As this trend is antithetical to a democratic government and the very nature of social studies, we recommend teacher educators attempt to move preservice candidates in the direction of adopting Westheimer and Kahne’s justice orientation toward citizenship when teaching elementary students in their future classrooms.


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