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Preparing teachers for culturally diverse schools : Research and the overwhelming presence of whiteness
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This paper reviewed 80 studies of effects of various preservice teacher education strategies, including recruiting and selecting students, cross-cultural immersion experiences, multicultural education coursework, and program restructuring, and argued that although this is a very important problem that does need to be addressed, it is not the same as figuring out how to populate the teaching profession with excellent multicultural and culturally responsive teachers.Abstract:
This article reviews data-based research studies on preservice teacher preparation for multicultural schools, particularly schools that serve historically underserved communities. In this article, the author reviews 80 studies of effects of various preservice teacher education strategies, including recruiting and selecting students, cross-cultural immersion experiences, multicultural education coursework, and program restructuring. Although there is a large quantity of research, very little of it actually examines which strategies prepare strong teachers. Most of the research focuses on addressing the attitudes and lack of knowledge of White preservice students. This review argues that although this is a very important problem that does need to be addressed, it is not the same as figuring out how to populate the teaching profession with excellent multicultural and culturally responsive teachers.read more
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The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities
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The unexamined Whiteness of teaching: how White teachers maintain and enact dominant racial ideologies
TL;DR: This paper found that through previous life experiences, the participants gained hegemonic understandings about race and difference, and responded to challenges to these understandings by relying on a set of "tools of whiteness" designed to protect and maintain dominant and stereotypical understandings of race.
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Culturally Responsive School Leadership
TL;DR: Culture responsive school leadership has become important to research on culturally responsive education, reform, and social justice education as discussed by the authors and a comprehensive review provides a framework for the expanding body of literature that seeks to make not only teaching, but rather the entire school environment, responsive to the schooling needs of minoritized students.
Action, Criticism and Theory for Music Education
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Changing Preservice Teachers’ Attitudes/Beliefs About Diversity What are the Critical Factors?
TL;DR: This article conducted extensive interviews with one 22-year-old white female teacher candidate and identified six factors that appeared to play a critical role in her positive multicultural development. But, they did not identify the specific factors that may be associated with the development of greater multicultural awareness and sensitivity in preservice teachers.
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Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and the Miseducation of Teachers.
TL;DR: They had for more than a century before been regarded as so far inferior that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit as discussed by the authors and this opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race.
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Learning to Teach against the Grain
TL;DR: Cochran-Smith argues that a powerful way for student teachers to learn to reform teaching, or what she refers to as teaching against the grain, is to work in the company of experienced teachers who are themselves struggling to be reformers in their own classrooms, schools, and communities.
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Why aren't teachers being prepared to teach for diversity, equity, and global interconnectedness? A study of lived experiences in the making of multicultural and global educators
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identified teacher educators, who are recognized by their peers for their success in preparing teachers in both multicultural and global education and asked them to reflect upon the experiences that have most influenced their work in these fields.
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Star teachers of children in poverty
TL;DR: Haberman's Star Teachers of Children in Poverty as discussed by the authors, a concept he called "star teachers", are defined as teachers who are not deterred by professional and emotional demands placed upon them by students, parents, and administrators; rather, they share Haberman's philosophy that "life's greatest gift is the opportunity to throw oneself into a job that puts meaning into the lives of other people" (p. xii).