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Leslie Stewart Rose, Lecturer

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Leslie Stewart Rose is a Lecturer in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning. Her current work is a case study attempting to understand how teacher-candidates (TCs) make sense of their experiences in a teacher education program designed to prepare teachers to teach in inner city schools. This study seeks to understand the modes of thinking of a teacher-candidate: how TCs think about what they observe, how they interpret their observations, recognize tensions and conflicts in discourses, philosophies and actions, contemplate dilemmas and options and make decisions.

Though this research, Leslie hopes to provide a forum for 1) teacher-candidates, to become more metacognitively aware and deeply learn from their experiences; 2) for her to, as teacher-educator researcher, better understand the complexities of learning to teach in inner city schools; and 3) for readers who might find useful insight as we strive to improve teacher education and the experience of schooling for all students.

Research Interests:
• anti-oppression education in teacher education and school settings; dialogic inquiry; arts education and social change; music education