A Dialogue of Life: Integrating Service Learning in a Community-Immersion Model of Preservice Science-Teacher Preparation

by: Vicente Handa, Deborah Tippins, Norman Thomson, Purita Bilbao, Lourdes Morano, Brittan Hallar, and Kristen Miller

Dubbed a “dialogue of life,” community immersion in preservice science-teacher education aims at providing a true-to-life and empowering opportunity for prospective science teachers (both elementary and secondary) to become active participants in community life through field and service-learning experiences. It consists of a three-unit course with a field component wherein prospective science teachers live in a local community and immerse in the life-worlds of rural village people—their social, cultural, economic, and many other realities become the matrix for embedding science learning and activities.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 7/1/2008Stock # jcst08_037_06_14Volume 037Issue 06

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