Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 1999
Keywords
Multicultural education, Teacher education
Abstract
Currently, racial/ethnic minority students represent a third of the K12 student enrollment across the United States; by the year 2035, they will represent over 50 percent (American Educational Research Association, Division K Newsletter, 1998). This significant increase in the ethnic diversity of the K12 population, coupled with persistent disparities in educational attainment among various ethnic/racial groups in the United States, has supported an educational reform movement known as multicultural education (Banks, 1997). This movement’s goal is to redesign schooling in ways that "increase educational equity for a range of cultural, ethnic, and economic groups" (Banks, 1997, p. 7). Teacher preparation accrediting agencies and professional associations, such as the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, have joined this movement through the development of guidelines and standards for the infusion of multicultural education in teacher preparation. As of 1986, 27 states had implemented guidelines and requirements for the inclusion of multicultural education or human relations content in teacher education (Martin, 1991).
Publication Title
Teacher Education Quarterly
Volume
26
Issue
3
First Page
7
Last Page
24
Required Publisher's Statement
Teacher Education Quarterly Vol. 26, No.3, Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Concerns and Comforts with Multicultural Education (Spring 1999), pp. 7-24
© 1999 by: Caddo Gap Press
Recommended Citation
Montecinos, Carmen and Rios, Francisco, "Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Concerns and Comforts with Multicultural Education" (1999). Woodring College of Education Faculty Publications. 16.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/education_facpubs/16
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Multicultural education--United States; Multiculturalism--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States; Minority students--United States; Teachers--Training of--United States
Geographic Coverage
United States
Genre/Form
articles
Type
Text
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Included in
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons
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