%0 Journal Article
%T Embracing Advocacy: How Visible Minority and Dominant Group Beginning Teachers Take Up Issues of Equity
%A Naomi Norquay
%A Marian Robertson-Baghel
%J Brock Education : a Journal of Educational Research and Practice
%D 2011
%I Brock University
%X This paper is from a four-year research project that followed graduates of a teacher education program from teacher certification through their first three years of teaching. It focuses on participants' narratives about their advocacy efforts in both their pre-service practicum placements and their first year as probationary teachers. Our findings indicate that while dominant group white participants chose to advocate from a position of personal conviction (often based on new knowledge of equity issues), the visible minority participants were often summoned by others to advocate. The paper concludes with a discussion about how teacher education might better address advocacy issues, alongside the focus on equity issues.
%U http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/brocked/home/article/view/170