Reversing the Lens: Transforming Teacher Education Through Service-Learning

This chapter presents a preliminary study that explores what trainee teachers might learn, especially in relation to working in hard-to-staff schools or with marginalized students, through service-learning activities that place them in alternative educational settings. Trainee teachers' perceptions of what is learned in these settings is contrasted with what is learned through participation in the conventional practicum, where the emphasis is on techniques of classroom management and knowledge of the mandated curriculum documents. This chapter provides an analysis of student reflections, supplemented by data collected from interviews. (author)