Resistance and Retreat: Preparing Preservice Secondary Social Studies Teachers to Teach Reading

Abstract

This case study analyzes how adolescents' out-of-school literacy practices were integrated and utilized in a secondary Social Studies methods course. The specific focus of this study is to analyze preservice teachers' responses to this approach, their efforts to integrate reading instruction in their planning and classroom practices and why it is important for secondary Social Studies educators to engage with and honor adolescents' personal literacies.