Transforming the Multicultural Education of Teachers

by Vavrus, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780807742600
• ISBN10: 0807742600
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Recognizing the responsibility institutions have to prepare teachers for today's diverse classrooms, Vavrus shows us how to incorporate transformative multicultural education into teacher education curriculum, pedagogy, and evaluation. Placing race, racism, antiracism, and democracy at the center of his analyses and recommendations, this volume provides, concrete structural suggestions for including transformative multicultural education in higher education and K#x13;12 in-service programs.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	vii
James A. Banks
Foreword	xi
Mary Dilworth
Preface	xiii
Multicultural Teacher Education: Transformative Conceptions and Dimensions	1	(14)
Conceptions of Multicultural Education	2	(4)
A Transformative Conception of Multicultural Education	6	(3)
Research Focus	9	(6)
Multicultural Education Reform: The Status of Teacher Education	15	(18)
Reform With a Multicultural Perspective	16	(2)
Status of Multicultural Education in Teacher Education	18	(3)
Gauging Multicultural Teacher Education Curriculum Reform	21	(9)
Conclusion	30	(3)
Incorporating Multicultural Reform Into the Teacher Education Curriculum	33	(17)
Creating a Multicultural Teacher Education Conceptual Framework	33	(5)
Reflective Multicultural Teacher Education and Ideology	38	(5)
Systematic Multicultural Education	43	(4)
Conclusion	47	(3)
Multicultural Teacher Education Standards	50	(24)
Managed Multicultural Education	51	(2)
Exclusions and Standards	53	(1)
A Pragmatic Antiracist Response to Managed Multiculturalism	54	(4)
A Transformative Multicultural Reconceptualization of NCATE Standards	58	(13)
Conclusion	71	(3)
Responding to Racism Through Teacher Education	74	(27)
Human Relations Paradigm Limitations on Antiracist Expressions	75	(1)
Racism as a Field of Study	76	(6)
Antiracism in Teacher Education	82	(3)
Antiracism and Teacher Identity Formation	85	(7)
Antiracism Teacher Education Pedagogies	92	(7)
Conclusion	99	(2)
Globalization and Multicultural Education	101	(24)
Globalization as a Multicultural Concept	103	(1)
Globalization and Colonialism	104	(4)
Global Economic Production of Inequities	108	(6)
Global Economic Ideology and Education	114	(5)
Implications for Multicultural Teacher Education	119	(4)
Conclusion: What Does It Mean To Be a Teacher Under Globalization?	123	(2)
Weaving the Web of Multicultural Democracy	125	(17)
Democracy and Teacher Education: Contending With Provocative Declarative 1	126	(3)
Democratic Consciousness and Moral Stewardship: Contending With Provocative Declaratives 2 & 3	129	(4)
The Interrelationship of Democracy and Diversity: Contending With Provocative Declarative 4	133	(2)
Inseparability of Teaching and Learning From Democracy and Diversity: Contending With Provocative Declarative 5	135	(1)
Moving Democratic Concepts Into Student Teaching: Contending With Provocative Declarative 6	136	(1)
Connecting Democracy to Professional Practice	137	(2)
Evaluative Feedback	139	(1)
Conclusion: Benefit of Collective Sharing and Action	140	(2)
Learning Communities for Multicultural Teacher Education	142	(25)
Learning, Community, and Democracy	143	(2)
Range of Understandings of Learning Communities	145	(4)
The Participants and Location of a Learning Community	149	(4)
Restructuring To Design a Learning Community	153	(8)
Toward a Transformative Multicultural Education Pedagogy	161	(3)
Conclusion	164	(3)
Notes	167	(2)
References	169	(34)
Index	203	(14)
About the Author	217