2022
DOI: 10.55016/ojs/ajer.v68i1.70328
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Investigating Student Teaching Directors’ Definitions of “Teacher” and Paradigms of Disability in Canadian Teacher Education Programs

Laura Sokal,
Debra Woloshyn,
Alina Wilson

Abstract: Directors of Student Teaching from teacher preparation programs across Canada were surveyed and then interviewed in follow-up focus groups to determine the opportunities and barriers they perceived during processes of placing pre-service teachers with disabilities into practicum settings. These data are interrogated within three theoretical frameworks about disability—the medical model, the social model, and the critical disability theory—to determine whether decision-making by Directors of Student Teaching re… Show more

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“…The lecturer interviewees emphasized the importance of practical teaching experience with gifted students adding to taking a course in gifted education. The positive impact of the combination of practical teaching experience and coursework on preservice teachers has been found in other studies (Choy et al, 2014; Sokal et al, 2013; Taliaferro et al, 2015).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 76%
“…The lecturer interviewees emphasized the importance of practical teaching experience with gifted students adding to taking a course in gifted education. The positive impact of the combination of practical teaching experience and coursework on preservice teachers has been found in other studies (Choy et al, 2014; Sokal et al, 2013; Taliaferro et al, 2015).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 76%