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A Personal Journey To Merge Literacy Education And Multicultural Teacher Education, Gina M. Doepker
A Personal Journey To Merge Literacy Education And Multicultural Teacher Education, Gina M. Doepker
Gina Doepker
There has been considerable attention to multicultural education and how to effectively integrate it into teacher education programs so that it helps teachers to be attentive to and effective for the economically, culturally, and racially diverse student populace. This article will focus on my personal journey with multicultural teacher education and literacy education. There will be a discussion of multicultural or diverse-oriented teacher education with a focus on the challenges as well as the potentials that face these teacher preparation programs. In addition, there will be a discussion of current educational trends in schools as evidence that demands the need …
White Multicultural Voices In Southern Universities: An Overview, Gina M. Doepker, Steven Chamberlain
White Multicultural Voices In Southern Universities: An Overview, Gina M. Doepker, Steven Chamberlain
Gina Doepker
It is a fact that the diversity of today’s student population in schools across the United States is growing. According to the Center for Public Education (2012), it is also a fact that the majority of teachers in these schools are White, middleclass females. As a result of this demographic mismatch, teacher educators have been charged with the mission to help future teachers embrace multiculturalism so as to effectively meet the needs of this diverse student population. In order for this pedagogical shift to be successful, teacher educators themselves (who are also majority White) must first embrace the tenets of …