Being responsive to cultural differences : how teachers learn / editor, Mary E. Dilworth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dilworth, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Training of--Social aspects--United States.

Teachers.

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Teachers--Training of--Social aspects.

Teachers--Training of.

United States.

Minorities--Education--United States.

Minorities.

Minorities--Education.

Physical Description:

xvi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, [1998]

Summary:

Educators get a comprehensive look at the state of teaching in the changing cultural mix of American education. The book draws skillful pictures of the challenges and opportunities facing teacher education faculty and students, as well as preservice teachers.

The contributors explore training and teaching from a variety of perspectives. For example, follow a minority preservice teacher as she relates her difficulties with the older, white supervisors who test her resolve to be a teacher. Hear from a white teacher in a minority classroom on the progress of cultural responsiveness in practice. Find out how educators are (or aren't) incorporating multicultural perspectives into their curricula.

This thoroughly researched volume considers the burgeoning issue of cultural responsiveness in teacher education. Contributing authors use rich descriptions and examples of how these new responses look and feel in practice. Real-life stories clarify perspectives and provide ideas on how to incorporate these lessons into teacher education courses.

Being Responsive to Cultural Differences looks at how the educations of millions of students of color are affected by their nearly always white teachers. The chapter authors offer opinions and suggestions for teacher educators to encourage preservice teachers to construct and expand their own skills and techniques for teaching 21st century populations in ways that are cuturally responsive.

Contents:

1. The Presence of an Absence: Issues of Race in Teacher Education at a Predominantly White College Campus / Pearl M. Rosenberg 3

The Presence of an Absence 5

White Racial Identity Development 7

The Politics of Empathy 9

The Relationship Between Beliefs and Action 11

Being "Disloyal to Civilization" 13

2. Confronting Issues of Race and Power in the Culture of Schools: A Case Study of a Preservice Teacher / Jane Agee 21

LaTasha Wages 23

Early Expectations and Concerns 24

The Context of the School 26

The Cooperating Teacher-Preservice Teacher Relationship 26

Tensions Between LaTasha and the Culture of School 34

3. Teacher Efficacy: How Do Teachers Feel About Their Abilities to Teach African American Students? / Valerie Ooka Pang, Velma A. Sablan 39

Teacher Efficacy and African American Students 40

Results 45

Cultural Familiarity of Teachers 51

4. Culture: A View Toward the Unexplored Frontier / Michael Webb 61

Culture and Education 63

5. The African Advantage: Using African Culture to Enhance Culturally Responsive Comprehensive Teacher Education / Mwangaza Michael-Bandele 78

African Cultural Context 79

African Learning Strategies 82

6. Multicultural Content Infusion by Student Teachers: Perceptions and Beliefs of Cooperating Teachers / Michael Vavrus, Mustafa Ozcan 94

Purpose and Theoretical Framework 95

Discussion and Implications 101

7. Prospective Teachers Constructing Their Own Knowledge in Multicultural Education / Sharon Adelman Reyes, Nayda Capella-Santana, Lena Licon Khisty 110

The Theoretical Framework 112

Broadening the Multicultural Framework 113

Broadening the Multicultural Course Context 118

8. Culturally Literate Teachers: Preparation for 21st Century Schools / Claudette Merrell Ligons, Luis A. Rosado, W. Robert Houston 129

A Novel Consortium of Institutions 130

Institutional Experiences That Promote Cultural Literacy 135

Promising Program Results 139

9. What Difference Does Preparation Make? Educating Preservice Teachers for Learner Diversity / Andrea Guillaume, Carmen Zuniga, Ivy Yee 143

Comparisons of CLAD-BCLAD Groups' Essays Composed Before and After Discussion 153

10. Pursuing the Possibilities of Passion: The Affective Domain of Multicultural Education / Francisco A. Rios, Janet E. McDaniel, Laura P. Stowell 160

Appendix Multicultural Education Survey 179

11. Multicultural Education in Practice: What Do Teachers Say? / Constance L. Walker, Diane J. Tedick 182

Putting Theory Into Practice 182

Teachers Address the Issues of Multicultural Education 184

Multicultural Education in Schools: Complex, Controversial, and Minimally Supported 186

Teachers' Individual Plans for Addressing Diversity Through Multicultural Education 190

The Complex Task of Considering Culture and Diversity in Education 194

12. Old Messages With New Meanings / Mary E. Dilworth 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0803966695

0803966709

OCLC:

37201262