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Academic Service-Learning as a Pedagogical Tool and Strategy: Promoting Critical Thinking Among Pre-Service Teachers

Academic Service-Learning as a Pedagogical Tool and Strategy: Promoting Critical Thinking Among Pre-Service Teachers
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Author(s): Estanislado S. Barrera, IV (Louisiana State University, USA)and Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell (Louisiana State University, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 27
Source title: Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Education: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7305-0.ch023

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Abstract

This chapter presents academic service-learning (AS-L) as a pedagogical tool and strategy for promoting critical thinking among pre-service teachers. The results of the two cases discussed reveal that many well-intentioned young education majors' frames of reference about urban education indicate a dissonance of experience. Public urban education in the US is becoming increasingly stratified with teachers representing White, female, middle income backgrounds and resultant perspectives, but public school children in the United States represent families of color and communities that are predominantly poor. AS-L truly promotes critical thinking about teaching and learning, especially when the tensions surrounding difference surface. Findings indicate that pre-service teachers must first overcome bias, negative expectations, and stereotypes before they synthesize the elements of the instructional process that leads to achieving reflective praxis.

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