Walking the Talk

Engendering a "Community of Teachers" in an Educator Preparation Program in the Southern United States

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ID4306569
AuthorsNicholas D Hartlep (0000-0002-9747-7010, Berea College, Berea, KY, USA, corresponding author), Jon C Saderholm (Berea College, Berea, KY, USA), Jon Saderholm (0000-0003-2589-5245, Berea College), Julian Viera (0000-0001-9009-4984, Berea College, Berea, KY, USA), Maggie Robillard (Berea College, Berea, KY, USA), Keesha Greer-Effs (Berea College, Berea, KY, USA), Lisa Rosenbarker (Berea College, Berea, KY, USA), Shaniqua Robinson (Berea College, Berea, KY, USA), Cinda Holland (Berea Community High School, KY, USA), Herbie Brock (Lincoln County High School, Stanford, KY, USA), Collis R Robinson (Berea College, Berea, KY, USA), Angela J Cox (Berea College, Berea, KY, USA), Heather Chapman (0000-0001-5819-2824, Lansdowne Elementary School, Lexington, KY, USA), Joshua Woodward (0000-0001-6539-0204, Berea Community High School, KY, USA), Noé R Guevara (Berea Community Middle School, KY, USA), Jennifer Whitt (Berea Community High School, KY, USA), Julia Allen (0009-0004-8588-7719, Kingston Elementary School, Berea, KY, USA)
Year2024
Volume75
Issue4
Pages382-396
Publication date2024-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Teacher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4871 • E-ISSN: 1552-7816
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00224871241275244
OpenAlexW4401844783
LanguageEN
References cited17

In this article, the Education Studies Department (ESD) at Berea College shares lessons learned while becoming an inclusive, justice-focused, and democratic Education Preparation Program (EPP) together with its "Community of Teachers" (CoT). ESD values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI+B) and democratic relationships. These values influence how we do our work. We begin by sharing how the theoretical framework of Community of Practice (CoP) frames our case study. After explaining how a CoP applies to ESD's approach to educator preparation, we give an overview of Berea College. We share some of its history and its eight Great Commitments. We detail how ESD is a unique EPP compared with other more traditional EPPs. Next, we chronicle the story of how ESD "walks its talk" and invests in the teacher profession. We detail the participants of the case study, outline our methodology of the case study, and share the data we analyzed for this article. Data were analyzed and three emergent themes were discovered about the praxis of ESD: (a) community-engaged and justice-focused teacher preparation, (b) community building within teacher preparation programs, and (c) diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. The article concludes by sharing implications for EPPs and a conclusion

Democracy · Diversity (politics) · Economic Justice · Equity (law) · Inclusion (mineral) · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Praxis · Social science · Sociology · Teacher education · Teacher Preparation · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion · Law · Psychology · Service-Learning and Community Engagement · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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