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1 online resource (221 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; 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 |
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4 Contextualizing the Demographic Imperative: Teacher Education for Students of Color in a Rural Community5 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." |
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9 Admission System of a Teacher Preparation Program Designed to Allow Access for Diverse Teacher Candidates10 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 Foundations of a Diversity Strategic Plan in a College of Education; 12 Diversifying Teacher Education at a Predominantly White Institution: A Public Scholarship Framework |
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13 The Potential of Accreditation to Foster Diversity in Teacher Education ProgramsContributor Biographies; Index |
| Summary |
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 collec |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Culturally relevant pedagogy -- United States
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Diversity in the workplace -- United States
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Minority teachers -- Recruiting -- United States
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Minority teachers -- Training of -- United States
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Teaching -- United States -- Regional disparities
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Culturally relevant pedagogy
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Diversity in the workplace
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Minority teachers -- Recruiting
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Minority teachers -- Training of
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neal, La Vonne I
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Kumashiro, Kevin K
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| ISBN |
9781317816539 |
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1317816536 |
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