Understanding the Spatial Context of Pre-Service Teachers and Writing Instruction:
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[Thesis]
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Jimerson, Lanette Valena
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Movement from Disbelief to Belief
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Hull, Glynda
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UC Berkeley
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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UC Berkeley
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2011
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Spatial classroom studies have attended to the context of the classroom. Specific to this inquiry is the ideological understandings pre-service teachers have of classroom space, student identities, and writing instruction. Pre-service teachers generally receive minimal instruction in the teaching of writing and less of this instruction is grounded in teachers' beliefs about writing instruction. This study examines pre-service teachers imagined context of the classroom and the resulting disbeliefs and beliefs of the possibilities of new practice in the area of writing instruction.