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- Title: Analyzing Teachers' Dispositions Towards Diversity: Using Adult Development Theory (Research)
- Author : Multicultural Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 213 KB
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Why do some teachers demonstrate great cultural sensitivity in their work with children while others seem mired in stereotypes, perpetuating a view of diversity as exotic or denying that race is an issue in their classrooms? Why is it so difficult to change these dispositions of teachers? And what can we do in teacher education to further the cultural responsiveness we claim we want teachers to develop? Dispositions of teachers strongly affect the impact they have on student learning and development (Collinson, et al., 1999; Combs, Blume, Newman, & Wass, 1974). Recent research has lead to dispositions playing a prominent role in the accreditation of teacher education programs, including the requirement to effectively measure dispositions of teacher candidates (NCATE, 2000). The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (2001) also requires teachers to demonstrate dispositions and the standards are rife with the language of dispositions: value, belief, commitment, passion. There is less consensus however, on the particular dispositions associated with effective teaching, or on the role that dispositions might play in the educational reform movement (McKnight, 2004).
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