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Sticky points: teacher educators re-examine their practice in light of a new Alberta social studies program and its inclusion of Aboriginal perspectives 

Author: Kent den Heyer a
Affiliation:   a Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
DOI: 10.1080/10476210903254083
Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year
Published in: journal Teaching Education, Volume 20, Issue 4 December 2009 , pages 343 - 355
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Abstract

In this study, a group of teacher educators converse about their teaching practice in light of a new provincial K-12 program of social studies. The most noteworthy feature of this new program is its explicit call for teachers to include Aboriginal and Francophone perspectives as they teach to the program's two central themes of “identity” and “citizenship”. I read teacher educators' conversations about their practice to identify a set of educational questions that I argue speak both to and beyond this specific programmatic context. These questions concern whose expectations should guide teacher education practices, the relevant role of dis/comfort in education, and the ways in which a “politics of clarity” shapes a particular understanding of both curriculum and practicality in the work of teacher educators.
Keywords: curriculum theory and change; social studies; teacher education
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