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Foreign language students have had little preparation from their teachers for providing the types of assistance that such learners need to successfully learn academic content and skills through English while developing proficiency in English. The authors conclude with concrete suggestions for how teacher education programs can incorporate the knowledge and skills that will prepare all preservice teachers to be linguistically responsive. More
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 28, 2008
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The article examines the Derrick Bell's (1980) interest convergence can be used as an analytic, explanatory, and conceptual tool in the study and analyses of policies and practices in teacher education. The author conceptualizes some broad themes of 'raced' interests in teacher education, and introduces an evolving theory of disruptive movement in teacher education to fight against racism in teacher education policies and practices. More
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 26, 2008
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The article encourages teachers' to strengthen their teaching abilities for diverse students. It describes two teachers from California, and describes their high expectations, their engagement of students by building on what they know and what interests them, the teachers' relation to their families and communities, and those who can envision diverse students as constructive participants in a multicultural democracy. More
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 26, 2008
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The article suggests ethical challenges and perceived discontinuity between home-and-school based experiences. The article offers definition and methodology for quantitative investigation of cultural discontinuity. A description of the cultural values and corresponding behaviors of African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American students, along with those values and behaviors salient in most public schools, is offered. More
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 17, 2008
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The article explores the meaning of Brown Vs. The Board of Education as affirming not only to the meaning of 'harm' also impoverished multiethnic youth reaffirm that America is not colorblind and suggest that these youths’ political beliefs and concerns about government vary by ethnicity, gender, family structure, and skin color preferences. More
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 17, 2008
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The author of this article argues liberal assimilations conceptions of citizenships and educations. He takes exception that citizenship education should be reformed so that it reflects the home cultures and languages of students from diverse groups, and he contends that group rights can help individuals to attain structural equality. More
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 17, 2008
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The aim of this research whether action-research can help educators help minority pupils. The research showed that the teachers’ training brought changes in their perceptions and attitudes related to their general ideological beliefs concerning otherness, their professional role and their educational work. More
Published: 2007
Updated: Jul. 13, 2008
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The article examines how a group of white, mostly upper middle class pre-service teachers expressed resistance to one multicultural education course. Findings reveal that despite variation in students’ incoming ideological dispositions, they all rationalized inequality by clinging to moral evaluations of their own achievements and that of others like and unlike them. More
Published: 2007
Updated: Jul. 13, 2008
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The study, a Participatory Action Research (PAR,) explored how preadolescent Latina girls in a Boston public school constructed their girlhood and other gender issues. But more focused, were the reflections of the team who conducted the study. All foreign born teaching students assisted by the research to understand the many issues in public education in the USA today. More
Published: 2007
Updated: Jun. 18, 2008
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The article shows how the Netherlands has partly accommodated itself to greater cultural diversity through compulsory reforms like intercultural education and citizenship education and through its long-established structure of public funding for pedagogically and religiously diverse schools. It also shows the double standards applied to Christian and Islamic schools in the media and public debate. More
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 23, 2008