Centering the Margins: White preservice teachers' responses to Roll of Thunder |
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| Authors: | Wendy Saul Kendra Wallace |
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| Institution: | University of Wisconsin‐Oshkosh , Oshkosh, WI 54901 |
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| Abstract: | Over the course of several years, the award-winning adolescent novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry , was used as the centerpiece for a study of white, female preservice teachers' perceptions of race as an issue in classroom discourse. Invented dialogues created by these preservice teachers were examined to learn more about the issues that troubled them as they considered teaching this novel in the future. They identified language, "reverse racism" and creating distress among children as particularly salient concerns. Examples from these teacher candidates are explicated and theorized. |
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