Engaging with images and stories: Using a learning approach to develop agency of beginning "at-risk" pre-service teachers

• Published in: The Australian journal of teacher education Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 46 - 61
• Main Authors: Noble, Karen, Henderson, Robyn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edith Cowan University 01.01.2008
• Subjects: Academic Failure; At Risk Students; Australia; Beginning Teachers; Communities of Practice; Education; Education Majors; Evaluation; Foreign Countries; Images, Photographic; Learning; Preservice Teacher Education; Preservice Teachers; Reflective Teaching; Research Projects; School Holding Power; Social aspects; Student teachers; Training of; Undergraduate Students; Australia

At a regional Australian university, a Learning Circle approach was implemented with a small group of first year education students who identified themselves as "at risk" of failure in the tertiary context. As part of their participation in weekly meetings, the students engaged in discussi...