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The pre-service teachers who negotiate their own sense of national identity are challenged and their views of otherness is examined through reading and responding to a range of contemporary Canadian picture books. The year-one findings from one site of the study in the Western Canadian province of Alberta is focused to analyse the growing disparity between the backgrounds of beginning teachers and the students in their classrooms.
Johnston et al. (Sat,) studied this question.