Author ORCID Identifier
Cristina Valencia Mazzanti: 0000-0002-5110-6628/a>
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Publication Title
Themed Issue of School-University Partnerships: Professional development school and school-university partnership efforts to support equity-based teaching
Abstract
Research literature documents a richness of innovations and projects advocating school-university partnerships that facilitate robust clinical practice. In the context of this focus on clinical work and school-university partnerships there are many possibilities to explore the way children may participate in these partnerships as contributors and experts; particularly, when we acknowledge that their role has predominantly been that of the benefactors of partnership efforts. Children have often been seen as the targets and recipients of the combined efforts of pre-service and in-service teacher collaborations with a focus on student achievement and social/emotion growth. In response to the call for innovative clinical work in the context of school partnerships, in this writing we will discuss what we have learned when conceptualizing and implementing Fowler University, an initiative to have elementary school children and undergraduate students participate as peers in a university class about pedagogy. Through our analysis, we revisit what we have learned about education, children, and teachers, providing insight into how we might think differently about teachers’ practices. In the context of Fowler University we consider the following questions: (1) What can teacher candidates learn about pedagogy and effective practice through their collaboration with children? (2) How can children’s voices contribute to the pedagogical development of teacher candidates?
Keywords
Early Childhood, Elementary Education, Professional Development School, School University Partnership, Teacher Education
Volume
13
Issue
3
First Page
157
Last Page
169
Recommended Citation
Tolley, Beth D. and Valencia Mazzanti, Cristina, "The Power of Children’s Voices: Potentials for Teacher Education" (2020). Education and Child Study: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/edc_facpubs/26
Comments
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