The Effect of Case-Based Instruction on Teacher Candidates’ Culturally Responsive Knowledge

The rapid growth of culturally and linguistically diverse populations in K-12 schools has increased the need for preparing culturally responsive teachers. Yet, many pre-service teachers feel unprepared to work with diverse students. With the urgent need to connect educational theory to classroom pr...

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Main Authors: Kira Carbonneau, Brenda Barrio, Yuliya Ardasheva, Sarah Newcomer
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Published: Indiana University Office of Scholarly Publishing 2025-03-01
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/36133
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description The rapid growth of culturally and linguistically diverse populations in K-12 schools has increased the need for preparing culturally responsive teachers. Yet, many pre-service teachers feel unprepared to work with diverse students. With the urgent need to connect educational theory to classroom practice, teacher preparation programs have turned to case-based instruction and worked examples to relay important content. In an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study, 95 pre-service teachers came into a lab to engage in a 4-week instructional sequence that examined two factors, namely, 1) case-based instruction (classroom cases vs. textbook) and 2) worked examples (expert worked examples vs. student exploration), on pre-service teachers' understanding of culturally responsive pedagogy. Results of a multilevel growth model show that pre-service teachers who learned from the case-based instruction performed higher than those in the textbook condition. Participants' rate of change was dependent upon viewing classroom cases but not an expert-worked example. Qualitative findings indicate that preparing culturally responsive teachers through case-based instruction could offer a more in-depth, rich, realistic, and inclusive experience associated with understanding multiple perspectives.
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spelling doaj-art-81740bc6825d468aadb40daaebb5ae1a2025-08-20T17:03:50ZengIndiana University Office of Scholarly PublishingJournal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1527-93162025-03-01251The Effect of Case-Based Instruction on Teacher Candidates’ Culturally Responsive KnowledgeKira Carbonneau0Brenda Barrio1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5975-9159Yuliya Ardasheva2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9494-0316Sarah Newcomer3Washington State UniversityUniversity of North TexasWashington State UniversityWashington State University The rapid growth of culturally and linguistically diverse populations in K-12 schools has increased the need for preparing culturally responsive teachers. Yet, many pre-service teachers feel unprepared to work with diverse students. With the urgent need to connect educational theory to classroom practice, teacher preparation programs have turned to case-based instruction and worked examples to relay important content. In an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study, 95 pre-service teachers came into a lab to engage in a 4-week instructional sequence that examined two factors, namely, 1) case-based instruction (classroom cases vs. textbook) and 2) worked examples (expert worked examples vs. student exploration), on pre-service teachers' understanding of culturally responsive pedagogy. Results of a multilevel growth model show that pre-service teachers who learned from the case-based instruction performed higher than those in the textbook condition. Participants' rate of change was dependent upon viewing classroom cases but not an expert-worked example. Qualitative findings indicate that preparing culturally responsive teachers through case-based instruction could offer a more in-depth, rich, realistic, and inclusive experience associated with understanding multiple perspectives. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/36133Culturally-responsive pedagogyworked examplescase-based instruction
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