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Article: Re(in)forming the conversations: student position, power, and voice in teacher education.
- Article from:
- Radical Teacher
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Sometimes I wish I could sit down with one of my teachers and just tell them what I exactly think about their class. It might be good, it might be bad, it's just that [I] don't have the opportunity to do it.
This high school student's words echoed my own thinking when eight years ago I became director of an undergraduate teacher education program. A former high school teacher myself, I missed the energy and insights of the high school students I had taught, and I didn't want to reenact the dominant model of teacher preparation -- and teaching -- that ignores the experiences and perspectives of those who spend their days in high school classrooms: students. ...