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What Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Brings to New Teachers: Investigating K-6 Teacher Candidates’ Experience in Teaching Diverse Learners (88939)
Session Chair: Hsuehi Lo
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Saturday, 29 March 2025 15:20
Session: Session 3
Room: Live-Stream Room 1
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
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The aim in conducting this study was to investigate the experiences of 16 elementary teacher candidates (TCs) working with diverse learners during a 16-week student teaching experience. Culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) methods were provided to the TCs; these dealt with theoretical assumptions underpinning CRP, and practical implementations. Less than 10% of TCs have any experience teaching diverse learners; they have, however, taught white, middle-class students. The study centered on TCs’ experiences attempting to deploy CRP in diverse settings. I employed qualitative interviews to assess their experience; these were based on four essential interview principles, including: 1) perceptions of learners’ diversity; 2) levels of cultural identity and how those diversity learners differed from their own culture; 3) experiences of responsive teaching action in the context; and 4) perspectives about teachers’ dispositions regarding CRP. TCs clearly articulated how their newly acquired sociocultural perceptions supported implementation of CRP. The TCs argued that diverse learners’ cultural identity varied along several dimensions; most interestingly, including the degree to which they proved interested in other cultures. The study offered recommendations for (a) successfully deploying CRP with emerging teachers and (b) maximizing positive change.
Authors:
Hsuehi Lo, St. Cloud State University, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Hsuehi Lo is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at St. Cloud State University in United States
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