International Portal of Teacher Education
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Search results for: Diversity
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This article explored mathematics teachers' resistance to social justice issues. 12 preservice participated, in a discourse analysis action research project. The findings suggest that attention to issues of identity construction within school mathematics can be successfully embedded in methods courses in order to better prepare mathematics teachers to teach for diversity.
Published: 2008
Updated: Nov. 26, 2008
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Foreign language students have had little preparation from their teachers for providing the types of assistance that such learners need to successfully learn academic content and skills through English while developing proficiency in English. The authors conclude with concrete suggestions for how teacher education programs can incorporate the knowledge and skills that will prepare all preservice teachers to be linguistically responsive.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 28, 2008
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The article examines the Derrick Bell's (1980) interest convergence can be used as an analytic, explanatory, and conceptual tool in the study and analyses of policies and practices in teacher education. The author conceptualizes some broad themes of 'raced' interests in teacher education, and introduces an evolving theory of disruptive movement in teacher education to fight against racism in teacher education policies and practices.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 26, 2008
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The article encourages teachers' to strengthen their teaching abilities for diverse students. It describes two teachers from California, and describes their high expectations, their engagement of students by building on what they know and what interests them, the teachers' relation to their families and communities, and those who can envision diverse students as constructive participants in a multicultural democracy.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 26, 2008
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The article explores the meaning of Brown Vs. The Board of Education as affirming not only to the meaning of 'harm' also impoverished multiethnic youth reaffirm that America is not colorblind and suggest that these youths’ political beliefs and concerns about government vary by ethnicity, gender, family structure, and skin color preferences.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 17, 2008
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The author of this article argues liberal assimilations conceptions of citizenships and educations. He takes exception that citizenship education should be reformed so that it reflects the home cultures and languages of students from diverse groups, and he contends that group rights can help individuals to attain structural equality.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 17, 2008
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This article examines the challenge for early childhood teacher education where diverse teachers are sought, but the diverse teachers find it hard to negotiate academic writing in English. This qualitative study of writing for 26 linguistically diverse teachers in an early childhood program of a public community college in spring 2007 attempts to provide strategies and elicit information to facilitate academic writing in this population.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 01, 2008
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This article explores teaching large number of students from diverse backgrounds. Informed by data from a longitudinal, qualitative study of 10 students' literacy development across the four years of a Bachelor of Education course, we propose a range of strategies that can be used to develop effective literacy practices
Published: 2008
Updated: Aug. 27, 2008
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A survey investigating the level of cultural understanding is examined in this article. The survey was administered to teachers in primary and secondary schools in an Australian regional city. It found that teacher responses to working in culturally diverse classrooms varied according to levels of familiarity with the cultural groups concerned and with the level of schooling within which the teacher worked.
Published: 2008
Updated: Aug. 27, 2008
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This study sought to influence both understanding a community and a positive attitude towards cultural diversity, through an on-site coursework and a long-term field placement. Findings support the idea that a targeted field placement, support from peers and teachers, and meaningful coursework facilitates the preparation of culturally responsive teachers.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jul. 23, 2008