“…This research study will offer further understanding about how preservice teachers gain the pedagogical and professional knowledge to teach critical literacy (Bransford, Darling-Hammond, & LePage, 2005). The study offers insight into the ways in which preservice teachers negotiate space to teach critical literacy during their student teaching experience (Calderwood, 2008;Wolfe, 2010), how they approached the teaching 8 of critical literacy (Behrman, 2006;Luke, 2000;McLaughlin, 2004), and how each preservice teacher experienced and responded to their teaching context in relation to critical literacy education (Lane et al, 2003;Price-Dennis & Souto-Manning, 2011;Wolfe, 2010).…”