Beschreibung:
In teacher education, field work in community-based spaces (including foster homes and programs for homeless youth) is frequently contrasted with "traditional" field experiences in classroom settings, where beginning teachers are immediately introduced to teacher-centered models of instruction. This volume works against such a model, presenting a counter-narrative of new teachers' understanding of the act of teaching. By exploring their work with at risk youth in community-based sites, the authors uncover how non-traditional spaces for teaching and learning have the potential to open new doors for reimagining the teaching act and teacher identity.
Introduction: Beginning at the Margins 1. Community Fieldwork in Teacher Education and Composition Studies 2. Composing Teachers, Teachable Students, and Teachable Spaces 3. Questioning Through Writing: Writing as Dialogic Response 4. Questioning Teaching: Disrupting a Teaching Mythology 5. Assumptions about Curricular Control and Expectations 6.Questioning Normal: Composing Ethical Representations of At-Risk Youth 7. The Promise of Work at the Margins: Community Fieldwork in Teacher Education and Composition Studies