Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers: A Coherent ApproachOffering a conceptual framework and practical strategies for teacher preparation in schools with increasingly diverse racial and ethnic student populations, this book presents a coherent approach to educating culturally responsive teachers. The authors focus on the importance of recruiting and preparing a diverse teaching force, as they propose a vision for restructuring the teacher education curriculum, reconceiving the pedagogy used to prepare prospective teachers, and transforming the institutional context in order to support the curricular and pedagogical changes they recommend. |
Contents
The Shifting Demographic Landscape | 1 |
Developing Fundamental Orientations for Teaching a Changing Student Population | 25 |
Fostering Culturally Responsive Teaching | 65 |
Modeling the Practice of Culturally Responsive Teaching | 113 |
The Institutional Context Needed to Educate Culturally Responsive Teachers | 151 |
CONCLUSION | 197 |
NOTES | 203 |
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