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Student teachers' awareness, preparedness and attitudes of issues related to high poverty schools
Darryn R Diuguid
Paperback. ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing 2011-09-07.
ISBN 9781243665812
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As more students are coming from diverse backgrounds including race, ethnicity, and social class, teachers are challenged to work with demographics with which they are not familiar. Society is faced with "tomorrow's teachers" who are mostly white, female, and middle-class with little intercultural background. Most of the research has been conducted on student teachers' perceptions of diverse populations but little has been performed in terms of focusing on student teachers' perceptions of high poverty issues. Therefore, this dissertation examined student teachers' awareness, perceptions of preparedness, and attitudes about high poverty students. The population of this quantitative study consisted of student teachers at three universities: a large Midwestern, Jesuit university; a small, liberal arts Midwestern university with ties to the United Methodist Church; and a large, public Midwestern university. A 31 item open-ended and closed-ended survey was distributed to student teachers during their on-campus professional development seminars. The closed-ended items were analyzed using descriptive statistics including mean, median, mode and skewness and an independent samples t-test. Responses to the open-ended questions were coded using a thematic analysis approach in order to disaggregate the themes which existed. In general, student teachers in the survey seem aware and prepared to work in high-poverty school settings. The survey population also holds relatively positive attitudes of high poverty students. The mean, median, and mode of the awareness, preparedness and attitude scales support these statements. The independent samples t-test only noted significance in the white and non-white student teachers in terms of their awareness and preparedness of high-poverty issues
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