Diversifying the Teacher Workforce

Preparing and Retaining Highly Effective Teachers
Herausgeber: Sleeter, Christine E.; Kumashiro, Kevin K.; Neal, La Vonne I.

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Produktbeschreibung

Diversifying the Teacher Workforce critically examines efforts to diversify the teaching force and narrow the demographic gap between who teaches and who populates U.S. classrooms. While the demographic gap is often invoked to provide a needed rationale for preparing all teachers, and especially White teachers, to work with students of color, it is far less often invoked in an effort to examine why the teaching force remains predominantly White in the first place. Based on work the National Association for Multicultural Education is engaged in on this phenomenon, this edited collection brings together leading scholars to look closely at this problem. They examine why the teaching force is predominantly White from historical as well as contemporary perspectives, showcase and report available data on a variety of ways this problem is being tackled at the pre-service and teacher credentialing levels, and examine how a diverse and high-quality teaching force can be retained and thrive. This book is an essential resource for any educator interested in exploring race within the context of today's urban schools.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780415736725
• ISBN-10: 0415736722
• Artikelnr.: 40545562

Autorenporträt

Christine E. Sleeter is Professor Emerita in the College of Professional Studies at California State University Monterey Bay, USA. La Vonne I. Neal is Dean of the College of Education at Northern Illinois University, USA. Kevin K. Kumashiro is Dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Why a Diverse Teaching Force Must Thrive. Part I: Communities
of Practice: Supporting Culturally Efficacious Leaders and Teachers. 1. A
Competing Theory of Change: Critical Teacher Development. 2. Teach Tomorrow
in Oakland: History, Teacher Profiles and Lessons Learned. 3. Changing the
Field: Teachers of Color Move Into Leadership Positions. Part II: Teacher
Education Programs: The Promise and Possibilities of Preparing a Culturally
Diverse Teaching Force. 4. Contextualizing the Demographic Imperative:
Teacher Education for Students of Color in a Rural Community. 5. The
Turning Point of One Teacher Education Program: Recruitment, Preparation
and Retention of Diverse Teacher Candidates. 6. Newcomers Entering
Teaching: The Possibilities of a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
Teaching Force. Part III: Recruiting and Retaining Teacher Candidates of
Color: University Partnerships with Public Schools. 7. Growing Your Own
Teachers in Illinois: Promising Practice for Urban and Rural "High Need"
Schools. 8. Pathways2Teaching: Being and Becoming a "Rida". 9. Admission
System of a Teacher Preparation Program Designed to Allow Access for
Diverse Teacher Candidates. 10. Tactics and Strategies for Breaking the
Barriers to a Diverse Teaching Force. Part IV: Diversity Plans, Demographic
Trends, and Accreditation in Higher Education. 11. Architecting the Change
We Want: Applied Critical Race Theory and the Foundation of a Diversity
Strategic Plan in a College of Education. 12. Diversifying Teacher
Education at a Predominantly White Institution: A Public Scholarship
Framework. 13. The Potential of Accreditation to Foster Diversity in
Teacher Education Programs. Contributor Bios.