In Search of Wonderful Ideas Critical Exploration in Teacher Education

Mary Kay Delaney, "In Search of Wonderful Ideas: Critical Exploration in Teacher Education"
English | ISBN: 080776518X | 2021 | 208 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Drawing on the work of Eleanor Duckworth, this volume examines Critical Exploration in the Classroom (CEC)―a learning-teaching research practice that positions teachers as researchers of their students' sense-making and learners as theorizers and investigators. By integrating CEC into their teacher education classrooms, chapter authors have found that they can reliably unsettle their teacher candidates' understandings about the nature of teaching and learning and recenter their attention on the intellectual originality and creativity of all young people. In this way, CEC provides valuable tools in the work of creating more equitable and democratic classrooms. Such tools are needed in a broader environment that overvalues instrumental approaches to achieving specified learning outcomes. Readers will find practices that empower and sustain the deep intellectual engagement of all learners. Integrating classroom narratives and other forms of documentation, this resource illustrates the kinds of profound changes in understanding that have occurred for teacher candidates as a result of working with CEC.