Department/School
College of Health
Date of this version
2008
Document Type
Article
Keywords
transformative education, teacher education, alternative teaching/learning strategies
Abstract
Acquiring a repertoire of competencies for creating and maintaining successful parent partnerships is an exceedingly important yet difficult task for pre-service educators. This mixed-methods study compared non-traditional and traditional approaches to transforming undergraduate student dispositions and competencies toward parent/professional partnerships. Results suggest that embedding parents of children with disabilities in the classroom, together with the use of activities that promote regular discourse, reflection, relationship building with professionally-relevant partners, transformed student dispositions toward parent/professional partnerships and increased student competence. Implications for teacher education programs are discussed.
Published in
Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Citation/Other Information
Curran, E. & Murray, M.M. (2008). Transformative learning in teacher education: Building competencies and changing dispositions. Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 8(3), 103-118. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/1704/1702