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Preservice Teachers' Images of Families and Schooling

May 23, 2005

UW-Madison education professor Elizabeth Graue examines how prospective teachers just beginning a professional education program think about working with parents. Graue's recent work merges cognitive, cultural, and narrative frameworks for teacher development. While prospective teachers must consider cultural boundaries of race, class, and gender, they must also move from being a child and a student in a family and a school to the professional position of teacher.

Graue argues that the role of teacher education is to manage the 'identity work' necessary to integrate the tools of biography and the process of learning to relate to others in a new role. Graue's article appears in the print journal, Teachers College Record, as well as on the Web site, TCRecord.