Chapter Twenty-Five: Gloria Ladson-Billings, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children (1994)

DeVitis, Joseph L.

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“…Although multicultural education and cultural competence have been established as important, different perspectives have existed on how to promote, measure, or contextualize these topics. Ladson-Billings (1994) promoted a culturally-relevant form of pedagogy that embraced the experiences and perspectives of all students, consciously remaining distinct from the assumptions of the dominant culture. Banks (1995) asserted that multicultural competence could be operationalized using three constructs: awareness, knowledge, and skills.…”

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Prisms of Whiteness: A Critical Analysis of the Multicultural Competence of Pre-Service Teachers

Tolbert¹

2019

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This study endeavored to assess the cultural competency of pre-service teachers in a region of the United States with limited ethnic or linguistic diversity. To do this, the prior work of D'Andrea, Daniels, and Noonan (2003) was used to develop an updated survey instrument. Students at a small university in the Midwest were surveyed at multiple intervals during the course of their teacher education program, and their total responses (n=190) are analyzed here. Findings for reliability and validity of the instrument are discussed, as well as general trends when comparing students by course enrollment, major, and degree status. Further discussion centers on the potential discovery of a partial measure of white fragility and how the results of the study may be enhanced by applying a lens of critical whiteness. Finally, implications are presented regarding how white fragility might be directly and deliberately incorporated into future efforts to measure and develop cultural competency in pre-service teachers.

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Prisms of Whiteness: A Critical Analysis of the Multicultural Competence of Pre-Service Teachers

Tolbert¹

2019

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Who Gets to Ask “Does Race Belong in Every Course?”: Staying in the Anguish as White Teacher Educators

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Sharkey

2022

Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices

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Stories That Matter: An Analysis of Teacher Candidates’ Compositions About Social Justice Events in Their Lives

Gormley

McDermott

2023

Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning

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This study generated from our interest in learning about social justice events in the lives of teacher candidates in our programs of study. In many schools of education, including our own, social justice is a concept that is integrated into the curriculums, yet there is wide variation as to how this is actually done. A unique aspect of this study was that more than half of the candidates were matriculated in an alternate teacher education program where the majority of candidates are people of color. Using narrative analysis, we examine 48 written narratives composed by teacher candidates about events relating to social justice in their lives. Results indicated that candidates’ narratives clustered into two themes and six categories: The themes consisted of stories about self or family members and to other stories about people in their communities. The categories pertained to racism, bullying, sexuality/gender identity, homelessness/elderly and social violence, with the stories about racism as being the most frequently described. Our findings are discussed in light of the importance of understanding the life experiences of today’s teacher candidates, especially when there is greater diversity in their color and ethnicities than previous generations of teachers. These social justice stories offered us the opportunity to learn about the saliency and the emotional effects of social justice events in our teacher candidates’ lives, and we suggest ways our programs might be improved to better prepare future candidates for teaching in today’s racially and culturally diverse schools.

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Chapter Twenty-Five: Gloria Ladson-Billings, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children (1994)

Cited by 8 publications

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Prisms of Whiteness: A Critical Analysis of the Multicultural Competence of Pre-Service Teachers

Prisms of Whiteness: A Critical Analysis of the Multicultural Competence of Pre-Service Teachers

Who Gets to Ask “Does Race Belong in Every Course?”: Staying in the Anguish as White Teacher Educators

Stories That Matter: An Analysis of Teacher Candidates’ Compositions About Social Justice Events in Their Lives

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