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"Why Seek the Living among the Dead?" African American Pedagogical Excellence: Exemplar Practice for Teacher Education
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Acosta, Melanie M.; Foster, Michele; Houchen, Diedre F. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Although teacher diversity, teacher preparation, and student achievement are contemporary and overlapping issues, they have suffered from the absence of African American educational principles and traditions. African Americans cultivated a sophisticated system of developing and supporting numbers of African American teachers; however, U.S.…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, African American Education
Race, Narrative Inquiry, and Self-Study in Curriculum and Teacher Education
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Milner, H. Richard – Education and Urban Society, 2007
Narrative inquiry and self-study are used as analytic and conceptual lenses to examine the author's teacher education course where he attempted to introduce the relevance and centrality of race and racism in society and thus education. Implications of the study point to the important role of personal experiences in curriculum development and…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Curriculum Development, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teacher Education
Stepping Out of Our Own Skins: Overcoming Resistance of Isolated Preservice Teacher Populations to Embracing Diversity in Educational Settings
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Klug, Beverly J.; Luckey, Angela S.; Wilkins, Sandra; Whitfied, Patricia T. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2006
Teacher candidates must metaphorically "step out of their own skins," challenging stereotypical cultural metanarratives, to teach effectively. This study describes results of collegian mentoring 1st- through 12th-grade students representing diverse ethnic and/or socioeconomic status groups in conjunction with a sophomore-level course on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Socioeconomic Status, Mentors
A Multivoiced Response to the Call for an Equity-Based Framework
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Majors, Yolanda J.; Ansari, Sana – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
In examining the university structure, this chapter raises questions as to how institutional protocols can and should be put in place that will ensure that the commitment to urban education is being met, specifically in teacher preparation. In responding to Gutierrez and Jaramillo, these authors do two things. First, they attempt to characterize…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Urban Education, Literacy
Surmounting All Odds: Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium. Volume 1. A Volume in Research on African American Education.
Yeakey, Carol Camp, Ed.; Henderson, Ronald D., Ed. – 2003
This volume includes the first 15 papers in a 32-paper collection. After a prologue by Mkhululi David Graham Du Bois entitled "Seeking Truth in Research", the papers are: (1) "`Knowledge is Light, Knowledge is Power': African American Education in Antebellum America" (Christopher M. Span); (2) "Curriculum, Culture, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Child Welfare, Culturally Relevant Education
Surmounting All Odds: Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium. Volume 2. A Volume in Research on African American Education.
Yeakey, Carol Camp, Ed.; Henderson, Ronald D., Ed. – 2003
This volume includes papers 16-32 in a 32-paper collection: (16) "Mining the Fields of Teacher Education: Preparing Teachers to Teach African American Children in Urban Schools" (Patricia A. Edwards, Gwendolyn T. McMillon, and Clifford T. Bennett); (17) "Mentoring Adolescents At Risk or At Promise" (Tammie M. Causey and Kassie…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Adolescents, Affirmative Action, Black Colleges