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Diversity, Neoliberalism And Teacher Education, Arturo Rodriguez, Kevin Russell Magill
Diversity, Neoliberalism And Teacher Education, Arturo Rodriguez, Kevin Russell Magill
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In this essay, we conduct a brief analytical review of teacher preparation programs, which claim to prepare lifelong culturally responsive teachers. Initial evaluation revealed factors limiting program success, they include: deeply embedded dominant ideological assumptions, use of traditional methods to train teachers, inability to understand or work toward non-hegemonic social relations and a pervasive and closed neoliberal epistemology limiting diversity in the preparation programs and profession. Finally, we critique existing understandings of teacher education, consider alternatives in philosophy, structure and function for preparation programs and critical humanism as a framework for working with teachers, to transform indoctrinating and dehumanizing educational …
Hope, Rage And Inequality: A Critical Humanist Inclusive Education, Kevin Magill, Arturo Rodriguez
Hope, Rage And Inequality: A Critical Humanist Inclusive Education, Kevin Magill, Arturo Rodriguez
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In this paper we examine challenges faced by students of color in an intervention program [Opportunity] in a socially stratified community on California’s Central Coast. The purpose of this paper is to name and discuss the problems students face: lack of support from the teaching community, the school staff and the administration of the parent district. We further identify challenges experienced by students and their teachers while highlighting strengths and weaknesses of educational programs and their reciprocal effects on participants. Finally, we seek to share a narrative overview of a teacher’s experience in creating the conditions for an inclusive education.