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Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education This volume addresses the pressing reality in teacher education that all teachers need to be prepared to work effectively with linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. Every classroom in the country is already, or will soon be, deeply affected by the changing demographics of America’s students.
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Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education
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#1 by Alicia Ardila-Rey on February 7, 2010 - 2:19 am
Title: Language, Culture, and Community in Teacher Education
Editor: Maria Estela Brisk (Boston College)
Note from Dr. Sharon P. Robinson, President and CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Foreword: Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College
Preface
Chapter 1: The Poisoning of Racial and Ethnic Identities: An Educational Challenge (Donaldo Macedo, University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Part I: Knowledge
Chapter 2: Language, Culture, and Identity (Courtney Clayton, Boston College; Ray Barnhardt, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; & Maria Estela Brisk, Boston College)
Chapter 3: Teaching Students who Speak African American Language (AAL): Expanding Educators’ and Students’ Linguistic Repertoires. (Gloria Swindler Boutte, Benedict College)
Chapter 4: Language and the Deaf World: Difference not Disability (Robert Hoffmeister, Boston University)
Chapter 5: Rethinking the Case for Culture-Based Curriculum: Conditions that Support Improved Mathematics Performance in Diverse Classrooms (Sharon Nelson Barber, WestEd; Jerry Lipka, University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Part II: Practice
Chapter 6: ESL is Good Teaching “Plus:” Preparing Standard Curriculum Teachers for All Learners (Ester J. de Jong & Candace A. Harper, University of Florida, Gainsville)
Chapter 7: Transforming Hearts and Minds (Socorro G. Herrera, Kevin G. Murry, and Della R. Pérez, Kansas State University)
Chapter 8: Highly Qualified Teachers for Our Schools: Developing Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions to Teach Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (Jorgelina Abbate-Vaughn, University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Chapter 9: Teacher Education to Serve a Native Hawaiian Community: Lessons Learned (Kathryn H. Au, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Yvonne Kaulukane Lefcourt, University of Illinois, & Alice J. Kawakami, University of Hawaii)
Chapter 10: “Does She Speak English?:” Hmong Educators In Western Wisconsin (Ronald S. Rochon, Buffalo State College, Clifton S. Tanabe, University of Hawai’I at Manoa, & Tamara H. Horstman-Riphahan, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse)
Chapter 11: Program and Faculty Transformation: Enhancing Teacher Preparation (Maria Estela Brisk, Boston College)
Chapter 12: Faculty Perspectives on Integrating Linguistic Diversity Issues into an Urban Teacher Education Program (Aida A. Nevárez-La Torre, Fordham University; Jayminn S. Sanford-DeShields, Catherine Soundy, Jaqueline Leonard, and Christine Woyshner, Temple University)
Part III: Policy
Chapter 13: Educational Policy and Linguistic Diversity: A Critical Analysis of Teacher Certification Requirements (Lisa Patel Stevens, Boston College)
Chapter 14: Language, culture, policy, and standards in teacher preparation: Lessons from research and model practices addressing the needs of CLD children and their teachers. (Alicia Ardila-Rey, AACTE)
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Culture, Language, and Community in Teacher Preparation: Proceedings and Recommendations from the the Wingspread Conference. Racine, Wisconsin, September 2005
Biographical Sketches
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