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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 …
Toward A Transformative Teaching Practice: Criticity, Pedagogy And Praxis, Arturo Rodriguez
Toward A Transformative Teaching Practice: Criticity, Pedagogy And Praxis, Arturo Rodriguez
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One method to teach a multicultural class: a teacher walks in to a room calls the class to order, steps to the lectern and begins to deliver knowledge. Socially acquired information is disseminated; that gained over years of study and experience. Another view: I walk into a class where my students are sitting quietly at their desks pen and paper at the ready and quietly ask: shall we form a circle? The students agree and after having done so I follow up with a generative (Freire, 1970): what are your current understandings of Diversity? In following the work of Paulo …