Learning to unlearn: How a service-learning project can help teacher candidates to reframe urban students

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1170-1177

  Conner, Jerusha O ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Service learning; Student voice; Teacher preparation; Unlearning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952546771     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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