Acting on Beliefs in Teacher Education for Cultural Diversity

This discussion focuses on an aspect of teacher education for diversity that is frequently mentioned but not developed in sufficient detail. It is preservice teachers’ and teacher educators’ attitudes and beliefs about racial, cultural, and ethnic differences.These are the ideological anchors of tea...

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Published in:Journal of teacher education 2010-01, Vol.61 (1-2), p.143-152
Main Author: Gay, Geneva
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Classroom management
Classroom techniques
Company business management
Competency based education
Consciousness Raising
Cultural Differences
Cultural Pluralism
Curricula
Ethnicity
Ideology
Intercultural education
Management
Minority Groups
Multicultural education
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Preservice Teacher Education
Preservice Teachers
Racial Differences
Student Diversity
Student Teacher Attitudes
Teacher Attitudes
Teacher Behavior
Teacher centers
Teacher centres
Teacher education
Teacher Educators
Teachers
Teaching
Training
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Summary:This discussion focuses on an aspect of teacher education for diversity that is frequently mentioned but not developed in sufficient detail. It is preservice teachers’ and teacher educators’ attitudes and beliefs about racial, cultural, and ethnic differences.These are the ideological anchors of teaching decisions and behaviors and meet Cuban’s criteria of deep structures and second-order targets of educational reform.
ISSN:0022-4871
1552-7816
DOI:10.1177/0022487109347320