ERIC Number: EJ1116895
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Oct
Pages: 17
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ISSN: EISSN-1554-5210
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Diversity, Neoliberalism and Teacher Education
Rodriguez, Arturo; Magill, Kevin Russell
International Journal of Progressive Education, v12 n3 p7-23 Oct 2016
In this essay, we conduct a brief analytical review of teacher preparation programs, which claim to prepare lifelong culturally responsive teachers. Initial evaluation revealed factors limiting program success, they include: deeply embedded dominant ideological assumptions, use of traditional methods to train teachers, inability to understand or work toward non-hegemonic social relations and a pervasive and closed neoliberal epistemology limiting diversity in the preparation programs and profession. Finally, we critique existing understandings of teacher education, consider alternatives in philosophy, structure and function for preparation programs and critical humanism as a framework for working with teachers, to transform indoctrinating and dehumanizing educational practices.
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Competencies, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Social Class, Social Influences, Minority Groups, Global Approach, Preservice Teachers, Interpersonal Relationship, Teacher Role, Social Justice
International Association of Educators. Egitim Fakultesi Dekanligi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale 17100, Turkey. e-mail: secretary@inased.org; Web site: http://www.inased.org/ijpe.htm
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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