Educating Teachers for Diversity

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. Book jacket.

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education in the Division of Educational Studies at Emory University in Atlanta

Series Foreword

ix

James A. Banks

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction

xv

The Education of Children Whose Nightmares Come Both Day and Night

1

(14)

Explaining the Achievement Gap---A Critical Examination

3

(6)

Cultures: A Professional Development Center for Urban Teachers

9

(4)

In Conclusion

13

(2)

The Role of Colleges of Education: Multiculturalism Through Curricular and Cultural Change

15

(12)

Curriculum Revision for Multiculturalism

16

(2)

Organizational Climate and Cultural Change for Multiculturalism

18

(6)

Recommendations

24

(1)

Conclusion

25

(2)

Seeing with the Cultural Eye: Different Perspectives of African American Teachers and Researchers

27

(13)

The Cultural Eye

28

(1)

Researchers' Perspectives

29

(2)

African American Teachers' Perspectives

31

(1)

Failure to See Eye to Eye

32

(2)

Seeing with the Third Eye

34

(6)

Caring, Competent Teachers in Complex Classrooms

40

(12)

Complexity of the Issue of Care

42

(3)

Complexity of the Issue of Competence

45

(1)

Complexities of Teaching

45

(3)

Recommendations

48

(4)

They Bring More Than Their Race: Why Teachers of Color Are Essential in Today's Schools

52

(10)

Teachers of Color as Cultural Translators

55

(1)

High Expectations, Mentoring, and Advocacy

56

(1)

Culturally Based Teaching Styles

57

(1)

Recruitment and Retention Strategies

58

(4)

Assessment and Equity in a Culturally Diverse Society

62

(8)

Language, Knowledge, and Culture

65

(2)

Learning, Teaching, and Culture

67

(1)

Assessment and Culture

68

(2)

Educating Teachers for Diversity: A Proposal for Change

70

(17)

Failures of the Past

71

(2)

A Proposal for Change

73

(6)

The Cultures Program

79

(3)

What Are the Implications of the Cultures Program for Pre- and Inservice Teachers?

82

(3)

In Conclusion

85

(2)

References

87

(12)

Index

99

(4)

About the Author

103

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Educating Teachers for Diversity

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