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What Does Teacher Education Have to Do With Teaching? Implications for Diversity Studies
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In this paper, the authors outline five conceptual repertoires of diversity for inclusion in any teacher education curriculum regarding diversity studies: color-blindness, cultural conflict, meritocracy, deficit conceptions, and expectations.Abstract:
Several concepts that are important for inclusion in any teacher education curriculum regarding diversity studies are elucidated in this article. The framing question of the discussion is: What are some relevant conceptions regarding issues of diversity that every teacher education program should consider including in its curriculum? The author outlines important concepts that contribute to what he calls teachers’ conceptual repertoires of diversity. The concepts are: color-blindness, cultural conflict, meritocracy, deficit conceptions, and expectations. The idea is that when teachers enter teacher education, their conceptions—their mindset, thinking, belief systems, attitudes, and overall understanding of the teaching and learning exchange—need to be addressed because these conceptions shape their curricula and instructional practices with P-12 students. The author is not suggesting that the five conceptual repertoires of diversity presented in this article are exhaustive; based on research, the list rep...read more
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Should teachers be colorblind? How multicultural and egalitarian beliefs differentially relate to aspects of teachers' professional competence for teaching in diverse classrooms
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between two cultural beliefs, multiculturalism and colorblindness, and different aspects of professional competence for teaching immigrant students, and found that participants with multicultural beliefs reported higher motivational orientations (selfefficacy and enthusiasm for teaching, and more integrative career motives), more positive values (lower agreement with negative stereotypes), and more reported willingness to adapt their teaching.
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TL;DR: Tillman as discussed by the authors pointed out that the top four journals in educational administration did not have a special issue commemorating or even acknowledging the 5 0th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) decision, as did other journals like Education and Urban Society and the Journal of Negro Education.
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Making Sense of Social Justice Leadership: A Case Study of a Principal's Experiences to Create a More Inclusive School.
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative case study of an elementary school principal in an urban setting and how she led to create a more inclusive school was presented, where sensemaking theory was applied to examine the principal's experiences leading for social justice and how successes, challenges, and failures influenced her leadership.
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But Good Intentions are Not Enough: Preparing Teachers to Center Race and Poverty
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the curriculum of teacher education as a potential policy and practice site for centering the interconnections of race and poverty in the preparation of teachers.
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Altering the Trajectory of the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Asset-Based Pedagogy and Classroom Dynamics.
TL;DR: The authors have contributed to our understanding about the ways teachers communicate their expectations to students, how students perceive differential teacher behaviors, and their effect on students' perceptions of teachers' behavior and their expectations.
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TL;DR: Lee S. Shulman as mentioned in this paper builds his foundation for teachi ng reform on an idea of teaching that emphasizes comprension and reasoning, transformation and reflection, and argues that this emphasis is justified by the resoluteness with which research and policy have so blatantly ignored those aspects of teaching in the past.
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Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform
TL;DR: Lee S. Shulman as mentioned in this paper builds his foundation for teaching reform on an idea of teaching that emphasizes comprehension and reasoning, transformation and reflection. "This emphasis is justified," he writes,...
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Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors map critical race theory (CRT) scholarship in education over the past decade and draw this map with respect to larger conceptual categories of the scholarship on CRT, primarily focusing on the ideas applied from CRT in legal studies.
White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack.
TL;DR: Men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged, has been identified as a barrier to women's empowerment as discussed by the authors. But they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's privilege.