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ISBN: 9789264079724 |
Educating Teachers for Diversity: Meeting the Challenge explores the concepts underlying diversity in various contexts and the challenges involved in creating an evidence base to guide policy makers. It looks at the need to better articulate the links between initial and in-service teacher education and the necessity of addressing current gaps in our knowledge. Such gaps include how to attract and retain more diverse student teachers and how best to educate the teacher educators themselves. It also examines classroom practices and principles in a number of country contexts. Throughout the volume, issues raised by student teachers, teachers, and teacher educators who participated in an online consultation are used to highlight emerging themes and key challenges in the field.
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Increasingly multicultural societies have an impact on education and student achievement. Educational challenges posed by family background, socioeconomic context and migration status are not only strongly linked to student performance, they determine student performance over and above the school’s influence.* Schools and education systems must therefore seek to overcome such inequalities and at the same time harness the benefits that students and teachers from diverse backgrounds bring to classrooms. A successful school system treats diversity as a source of potential growth rather than an inherent hindrance to student performance. It uses the strength and flexibility of its teachers to draw out this potential, and provides them with the appropriate support and guidance to accomplish this task.
Part I: Context, Concepts and Research
Part II: Preparing Teachers for Diverse Classrooms
Part III: Moving into Practice
Part IV: The Pending Agenda
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