This paper advocates a philosophy of science teaching that embraces intellectual conflict, suggesting that it is important to engage students in productive intellectual conflict in order to teach for conceptual change. Presents two approaches that could actualize the philosophy of "teaching the conflicts" within science instruction. (SM)

Recommends an approach to teaching students about changing relations between Asian and Anglo-Pacific nations that avoids the economic reductionism, sexism, and racism of orientalist pedagogy, suggesting a pedagogy based on Said's contrapuntal approach to reading literature, which encourages students to question how Asians are portrayed in films…

Explores how qualitative and feminist inquiry are reconfiguring educational research, focusing on methodological issues involved in moving it into the postpositivist era. The article examines contributions of the transdisciplinary movements of feminism and poststructuralism in the development of critical frames in educational research. (SM)

Reading is a strategic activity. Readings are intended to make something happen and keep something else from happening. One professor discusses her struggle to situate her readings of students papers in their projects and questions and respond as a teacher to inaudible student messages. (SM)

Asserts that developing personal and professional critical consciousness about racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity should be a major component of preservice teacher education; discusses how teacher education students avoid engaging with racial issues in education (silence, diversion, guilt, and benevolent liberalism); and suggests strategies to…

Reflection is critical in preparing educators to teach with a global perspective. The article builds a rationale for reflection in globally oriented teacher education programs, shares strategies developed for an introductory seminar on global education, and discusses implications of reflection on global education and its infusion into teacher…

Success in bringing a global perspective to undergraduate teacher education involves the commitment of faculty members to the cause. All faculty members should reassess their courses and seek ways to revamp curriculum along global lines. The article looks at incremental change, faculty commitment, rewards for participation, and visibility. (SM)

Discusses feminist literary theory and describes challenges the experience of feminist literary theory presented to high school English students and their teacher. Students found that feminist theory threatened heterosexuality, agency, the good girl image, and the feminist haven. Makes recommendations to teachers who choose to utilize feminist…

The article uses research examples to explore how critical and constructionist social theory can raise and address questions of homosexuality in education. It outlines methodological strengths and weaknesses and examines critical research questions that qualitative research methodologies employing critical and constructionist theories might…

Discusses research on political tolerance, noting that traditional civics curricula do little to promote tolerance, and that tolerance for diverse beliefs must be learned. The paper describes the development and teaching of a four-week curriculum for tolerance and reflects on the need for educators to foster greater tolerance among young people.…

Describes a teacher education program at the New College of California as an example of efforts to empower new teachers to meet the challenges of educating diverse students. Discusses the candidate intake process, the preprogram reading effort, community building, instructional strategies, and the family literacy program, which is integral to…

Proposes a cultural model with alternative narratives for education that considers student and teacher diversity. The article highlights black culture, discussing why it is in the best interest of the global community to recreate the current mainstream narratives, thus helping teachers reclaim their own landscapes by employing alternative…

After acknowledging that learning and knowing are coconstructed social processes created and shared by teachers and students as learners, the paper examines mindfulness and multiculturalism as learner-centered processes. Mindfulness, multiculturalism, and learner centeredness are interdependent mindsets that encourage interplay between teacher,…

Cases offer prospective teachers vicarious experience in culturally different settings. This paper uses examples of cases from the Teachers for Alaska Program, which successfully altered the way teachers educated culturally diverse students. The paper considers how teacher education can create multicultural cases that address local circumstances…

Presents 14 design principles that explain good practice in multicultural preservice teacher education. The principles fall under the three main categories of (1) institutional and programmatic principles, (2) personnel principles, and (3) curriculum and instruction principles. (SM)