Preservice Literacy Teacher Identity Development

ISBN-13: 9783639067842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 136 str.

Mindy Legard Larson

Opis

Literacy teacher identity development: Discourses, subjectivity and agency is a response to the growing number of concerned teacher educators who seek to make sense of the complexities of identity development in elementary and middle school preservice literacy teachers.Using a poststructural feminisms theoretical lens, Dr. Larson investigates the authoritative discourses of personal literacy biographies, literacy coursework, and student teaching impacting the identity development of seven pre­service teachers during their graduate teacher education program. The agency of the preservice teachers is demonstrated through the strategies they used to negotiate and perform their identities during student teaching--working within and outside of the literacy structures of the classrooms of their cooperating teachers. The power of time and space in relation to each other is seen as a means for continued identity transformation for preservice literacy teachers.This book is written for literacy teacher educators, preservice literacy teachers and professional development educators.

O autorze

Larson Mindy Legard Mindy Legard Larson, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and Elementary Education Coordinator at Linfield College. She received a Ph.D. in Education from Oregon State University and a M.S. in Education from Western Oregon University. Dr. Larson previously taught first, second, and third grades, and worked as a Program and Curriculum Specialist.