Augmenting bilingual preservice teachers’ articulation of teaching in a Change Lab:
The funds of knowledge of bilingual preservice teachers (BPSTs) are undervalued in the U.S. predominantly White teacher education space. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate and integrate the overlooked knowledge and epistemologies of BPSTs into teacher preparation. To do so, we conducted a secondary analysis of Play-Doh pictures and narrative generated by the BPSTs from a multi-year change laboratory (CL) intervention, which took place in one graduatelevel practicum seminar, enabling the participants to tell their stories and express their voices in multimodal ways. By applying Rabardel’s notion of instrumentality to preservice teachers’ imaginative work with Play-Doh, the study describes how the art-mediated instrumental approach supported BPSTs to co-reflect on their articulation of teaching. Implications of using culturalhistorical research to study teacher education are discussed.
Authors
- Mónica Lemos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8846-718X)
- Sharon Chang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3321-9944)
- Arti̇n Göncü
Institutions
- Rio Branco Institute (BR)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões (BR)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Outlines Critical Practice Studies
- Published
- 2024-09-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7146/ocps.v26i.149353
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Innovative Education and Learning Practices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.19
Funders
- New York State Education Department