Using Book Clubs to Support Inquiry in Teacher Education
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Jun 29, 2021
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communication skills, textual analysis, communities of practice, professional collaboration, learning communities
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The bombardment of information on students in higher education has created a need for not only information processing skills but improved communicative competence and interpersonal relationship skills. In an attempt to address this, we have implemented book clubs in our undergraduate teacher education courses. In these book clubs, we facilitate students in both critique and analysis of perspectives at difference with one another as well as the process of communicating on a professional level. The results have been students who feel more confident in evaluating literature and hosting conversations with critical elements.
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Hales, P. D., Hasselquist, L., & Durr, T. (2021). Using Book Clubs to Support Inquiry in Teacher Education. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 21(2). https://doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v21i2.28684
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