Urban Pre-service K-6 Teachers' Conceptions of Citizenship and Civic Education: Weighing the Risks and Rewards

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作者：
Marri A.R. [1 ]
Michael-Luna S. [2 ]
Cormier M.S. [3 ]
Keegan P. [4 ]
机构：
[1] Department of Arts and Humanities, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY, 10027, 525 West 120th Street, Box 80
[2] Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Queens College, CUNY, Queens, NY
[3] Institute on Education and Economy, Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY
[4] Program in Social Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY
来源：
The Urban Review | 2014年 / 46卷 / 1期
关键词：
Citizenship; Civic education; Pre-service teachers; Urban teachers;
D O I：
10.1007/s11256-013-0248-3
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摘要：
To effectively help urban pre-service teachers to provide civic education opportunities in their future classrooms, teacher educators should know how urban pre-service teachers themselves conceptualize citizenship and civic engagement. Through the research question-how do urban K-6 pre-service teachers currently enrolled in an urban education teacher certification program at a 4-year university construct key concepts and ideologies about citizenship and civic education?-we examined how 15 pre-service teachers understood these concepts. Using three conceptions of citizenship-personally responsible citizen, participatory citizen, and justice-oriented citizen (Westheimer and Kahne in Am Educ Res J 41(2):237-269, 2004)-our analysis demonstrated that urban pre-service teachers' conceptions of their students' lives significantly influenced their ideas about civic education in elementary schools. Although the participating pre-service teachers overwhelmingly promoted personally responsible citizenship, we found the participants to heavily weigh developmentally appropriate practice and classroom context when considering the risks and rewards of promoting justice-oriented citizenship in elementary classrooms. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York.
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