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ERIC Number: EJ525334
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-051X
Multicultural Classrooms and Cultural Communities of Teachers.
Davis, Kathryn A.
Teaching and Teacher Education, v11 n6 p553-63 1995
Ethnographic data from a study of one teacher education program highlighted preservice teachers' values and beliefs concerning minority education. Results suggest that preservice teachers experience and adopt a meritocratic and hegemonic system of schooling in which academic performance is viewed in terms of individual abilities and based on mainstream norms. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Minority Groups, Multicultural Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Value Judgment
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Diversity (Student); Hegemony; Meritocracy