ERIC EJ854867: Transformative Learning in Teacher Education pdf

ERIC EJ854867: Transformative Learning in Teacher Education

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Acquiring a repertoire of competencies for creating and maintaining successful parent partnerships is an exceedingly important yet difficult task for pre-service educators. This mixed-methods study compared non-traditional and traditional approaches to transforming undergraduate student dispositions and competencies toward parent/professional partnerships. Results suggest that embedding parents of children with disabilities in the classroom, together with the use of activities that promote regular discourse, reflection, relationship building with professionally-relevant partners, transformed student dispositions toward parent/professional partnerships and increased student competence. Implications for teacher education programs are discussed. (Contains 3 tables

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 2008-10
• Year: 2008
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Education Programs, Transformative Learning, Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Teacher Competencies, Special Education Teachers, Student Surveys, Partnerships in Education, Pretests Posttests, Sensitivity Training, Social Psychology, Educational Strategies, Curran, Erin, Murray, Mary

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