Publication: Preparing Community-Oriented Teachers: Reflections from a Multicultural Service-Learning Project

• Boyle-Baise, Marilynne

This article details the Banneker History Project (BHP)
which reconstructed the history of a local, segregated
school.  The Benjamin Banneker School served
African-American youth from 1915-1951.  Oral histories from
surving alumni as well as primary documents from the times
were sought.  This article focuses on ways that one group
of participants, 24 preservice teachers of color,
experienced and interpreted the BHP. Data are reported in
response to three questions: (a) Whose community does
service learning serve? (b) What meanings do preservice
teachers make of culturally responsive teaching? and (c)
Does a community orientation count in teacher education?
The author reflects on and draws insights from these data.
She considers implications of this effort for
community-oriented teacher education.