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Smith, Grinell; Rabin, Colette – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This qualitative research project's overarching goal was to explore ways to help primary grade teacher candidates (re)kindle a conception of teaching as a moral enterprise involving ethical choices and enactment of one's values. In the context of a science methods course, we explored the research question: What happens to the commitments toward…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Moral Values
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Campbell, Elizabeth; Bussell, David; Rosenberg, Gillian – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The qualitative study reported in this paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of curriculum and its interpretation and implementation by secondary school teachers. It explores what teachers do to respond to a curriculum that increasingly adopts a values-laden perspective (e.g., social justice education, critical literacy) that establishes…
Descriptors: Ethics, Curriculum Design, Secondary School Teachers, Curriculum Implementation
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Kupferman, David W. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to present an alternate response to neoliberal education reforms, in the form of accelerationism, that does not rely on a return to a primitivist localism or direct action (such as that of the Occupy movement). Briefly stated, accelerationism does not try to reform neoliberal tendencies by going around them or from…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Acceleration (Education), Educational Change, Social Systems
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Barnes, Meghan E.; Davila, Denise – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Fear, or rather the recognition of and consequential "transcendence" of fear, is potentially a very powerful pedagogical tool--especially in educational settings that purport to strive for democratic teaching practices. In this study, secondary English teacher candidates (TCs) were encouraged to imagine the ways they could overcome fear…
Descriptors: Fear, Preservice Teachers, Democratic Values, Teaching Methods
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Archibeque, RikkiLynn; Okhremtchouk, Irina S. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This multiple case study unpacks White teachers' experiences of perceived cultural differences in their classrooms and deciphers their readiness to work with American Indian students. Situating our study using Tribal Critical Race Theory and culturally responsive teaching and using a developed conceptual model of Teacher Readiness to Work with…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, American Indian Reservations, Teacher Attitudes, Tribes
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McKellar, Sarah E.; Marchand, Aixa Daphne; Diemer, Matthew; Malanchuk, Oksana – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Student self-concept of math ability (SCMA) and math utility value shape course-taking patterns, achievement, and entree into mathematics-intensive college majors (Eccles & Wigfield, 2005). The development of SCMA and math utility value are embedded in social contexts (Marsh et al., 2005). School racial climate is a particularly important…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Mathematics Skills, African American Students, Racial Composition