Ana Maria Villegas

TL;DR: In this article, a vision of culturally responsive teacher educators is presented, which can serve as the starting point for conversations among teacher educators in the process of teacher education to move beyond the fragmented and superficial treatment of diversity.

TL;DR: Villegas and Lucas as mentioned in this paper argue that the primary role of schools is to promote a more equitable and just society and is informed by constructivist views of teaching and learning.

TL;DR: This paper found that students who speak languages other than English are a growing presence in U.S. schools and that many mainstream classroom teachers are finding that they have English language learners in their classrooms.

TL;DR: This paper identified three major arguments for diversifying the teaching force and assessed the extent to which they are validated by empirical research, and implications of the findings for research and practice are discussed.

TL;DR: The use of a dispositional framework in the preparation of teachers, especially one that attends to issues of social justice, has generated considerable debate of late as discussed by the authors, and the author argues that assessing teacher candidates' dispositions related to social justice is both reasonable and defensible.