Cross Cultural Competency and Multicultural Teacher Education

La perspectiva del profesorado de educación infantil y primaria acerca de la educación intercultural

“…Con el objetivo de alcanzar un correcto desarrollo de la EI, resulta indispensable que el profesorado adquiera las denominadas "competencias interculturales", es decir, las habilidades cognitivas, afectivas y prácticas necesarias para manejarse e cazmente en un medio intercultural (McAllister y Jordan, 2000).…”

U.S. Student Teachers in Belize, China and Mexico: Patterns of Cultural, Professional, and Character Development

“…First-hand contact in a school setting within a representative culture is a direct way of providing a solid foundation for NCATE's diversity requirement, and complements multicultural and related course work taken within the teacher preparation program prior to the international student-teacher experience. McAllister and Irvine (2000) assert two fundamental points that guide the current authors' investigation. First, that research remains "inconsistent" and "scant" regarding the "process by which teachers develop a cross-cultural competence that enables them effectively to teach diverse students in their classrooms;" second, that "teaching training and professional development models do not adequately develop the type of cross-cultural competence…deemed essential for teachers of diverse students" (McAllister & Irvine, 2000:3-4).…”

Unfulfilled promises of equity: racism and interculturalism in Chilean education

“…Numerous studies demonstrate that the effectiveness of education outcomes depends on teachers' competencies to challenge their own biases and racist attitudes, and to learn about and understand the values, practices and world-views of ethnic minority pupils in their classrooms (Banks 2009;McAllister and Irvine 2000;Villegas and Lucas 2002;Walters, Garii, and Walters 2009). Teachers' attitudes, central to shaping pupils' normative expectations about how to behave, the validity of their knowledge, and, ultimately, what they should aspire to achieve, take on added significance in multicultural environments (Nieto 1996).…”