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- Title: Are the Walls of Injustice Tumbling Down?(Report)
- Author : Educational Foundations
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 223 KB
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Introduction The discussion of multicultural education in teacher preparation dates back several decades. "The historical roots of multicultural education lie in the civil rights movements of various historically oppressed groups" (Gorski, 1999, p.1). As communities of color resisted institutional racism, schools became one of the sites of struggle. Thus, the concept of multicultural education is a response rooted in reforming education for liberation. However, according to Nieto and Bode (2008) many courses are not translating into culturally competent teaching. Gorski (2008) provides a critical analysis of the content of 45 undergraduate and graduate level courses in multicultural teacher education all across the nation and he found that "most multicultural education type courses are not designed to prepare teachers to do the work of multicultural education" (p. 18). Although we believe it is very complex to find the "magic" in providing teachers and pre-service teachers with the tools to engage in multicultural education as practice, we do believe that we can offer a piece in the mosaic that may bring us a step closer to producing culturally competent teachers.