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Authors: Jacqueline Irvine
ISBN-13: 9780807743577, ISBN-10: 0807743577
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Educating Teachers for Diversity addresses the complex issues of how culture, race and ethnicity, and social class influence the teaching and learning processes. The author provides not only an analysis of current conditions and reforms in education, but also offers suggestions and practices for improving educational outcomes for all children.
Series Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | The Education of Children Whose Nightmares Come Both Day and Night | 1 |
2 | The Role of Colleges of Education: Multiculturalism Through Curricular and Cultural Change | 15 |
3 | Seeing with the Cultural Eye: Different Perspectives of African American Teachers and Researchers | 27 |
4 | Caring, Competent Teachers in Complex Classrooms | 40 |
5 | They Bring More Than Their Race: Why Teachers of Color Are Essential in Today's Schools | 52 |
6 | Assessment and Equity in a Culturally Diverse Society | 62 |
7 | Educating Teachers for Diversity: A Proposal for Change | 70 |
References | 87 | |
Index | 99 | |
About the Author | 103 |