Educating Teachers for Diversity: Seeing with a Cultural Eye

by Jacqueline Jordan Irvine

Overview

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.

“In this insightful and wise book, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine reflects on topics ranging from the preparation of future teachers for urban schools to the role of colleges of education in current reform efforts. Debunking both taken-for-granted assumptions and facile answers to complex problems, she insists instead on focusing on what really matters: caring for and about the most vulnerable and forgotten children in our schools. Anyone interested in the future of public education today would do well to read this book.”
—Sonia Nieto, author of The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities

“This is a book to be read by education school faculty and administrators. It offers a design for the revitalization of teacher education that needs to be carefully considered . . . it is an agenda that must be pursued.”
—David G. Imig, President and CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807777466
Publisher:	Teachers College Press
Publication date:	08/24/2018
Series:	Multicultural Education Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	710 KB

About the Author

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Urban Education in the Division of Educational Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Her books include Growing Up African American in Catholic Schools.

Table of Contents

	Series Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	xv
1	The Education of Children Whose Nightmares Come Both Day and Night	1
	Explaining the Achievement Gap--A Critical Examination	3
	CULTURES: A Professional Development Center for Urban Teachers	9
	In Conclusion	13
2	The Role of Colleges of Education: Multiculturalism Through Curricular and Cultural Change	15
	Curriculum Revision for Multiculturalism	16
	Organizational Climate and Cultural Change for Multiculturalism	18
	Recommendations	24
	Conclusion	25
3	Seeing with the Cultural Eye: Different Perspectives of African American Teachers and Researchers	27
	The Cultural Eye	28
	Researchers' Perspectives	29
	African American Teachers' Perspectives	31
	Failure to See Eye to Eye	32
	Seeing with the Third Eye	34
4	Caring, Competent Teachers in Complex Classrooms	40
	Complexity of the Issue of Care	42
	Complexity of the Issue of Competence	45
	Complexities of Teaching	45
	Recommendations	48
5	They Bring More Than Their Race: Why Teachers of Color Are Essential in Today's Schools	52
	Teachers of Color as Cultural Translators	55
	High Expectations, Mentoring, and Advocacy	56
	Culturally Based Teaching Styles	57
	Recruitment and Retention Strategies	58
6	Assessment and Equity in a Culturally Diverse Society	62
	Language, Knowledge, and Culture	65
	Learning, Teaching, and Culture	67
	Assessment and Culture	68
7	Educating Teachers for Diversity: A Proposal for Change	70
	Failures of the Past	71
	A Proposal for Change	73
	The CULTURES Program	79
	What Are the Implications of the CULTURES Program for Pre- and Inservice Teachers?	82
	In Conclusion	85
	References	87
	Index	99
	About the Author	103

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From the Publisher

“In this insightful and wise book, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine reflects on topics ranging from the preparation of future teachers for urban schools to the role of colleges of education in current reform efforts. Debunking both taken-for-granted assumptions and facile answers to complex problems, she insists instead on focusing on what really matters: caring for and about the most vulnerable and forgotten children in our schools. Anyone interested in the future of public education today would do well to read this book.
— Sonia Nieto, author of The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities

“This is a book to be read by education school faculty and administrators. It offers a design for the revitalization of teacher education that needs to be carefully considered…it is an agenda that must be pursued.”
— David G. Imig, President and CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education