TY - SER AU - Jacobs, Katrina Bartow TI - “So Why Is It OK Here?” Literacy Candidates Grappling With Culture/Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in Urban Fieldsites PY - 2019/// PB - Sage KW - field experience, KW - urban education, KW - teacher education, KW - literacy, KW - culturally relevant pedagogy KW - subjects N2 - Drawing on culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) and the development of cultural competence, this study explores how teacher learners in a critical inquiry group narrated and discussed their urban field experiences, particularly in regard to equity-oriented literacy education. More specifically, this study demonstrates both the impact that deep-seated deficit perspectives had on how the teacher learners approached their work as educators and the tensions they felt between engaging in CRP and maintaining high standards. The article ends by offering a heuristic for “critical practice-based field experiences” as a way of contextualizing practice within school-based teacher learning UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085918772621 ER -