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Challenging Old Assumptions: Preparing Teachers for Inner City Schools

Researchers analyzed journals and essays from an elementary teacher education course, examining white prospective teachers' changing views about inner-city schools with minority children as they completed fieldwork and relevant readings. The experiences helped them question old assumptions about urban students and teaching and about the value of multicultural education. (SM)

• Author/Creator: Olmedo, Irma M.
• Date Published: Apr
• Journal/Secondary Title: Teaching and Teacher Education
• Number: 3
• Volume: 13
• Year: 1997

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Black Students
• Subject: Consciousness Raising
• Subject: Cultural Awareness
• Subject: Cultural Differences
• Subject: Elementary Education
• Subject: Elementary School Students
• Subject: Elementary School Teachers
• Subject: Field Experience Programs
• Subject: Higher Education
• Subject: Inner City
• Subject: Minority Group Children
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Preservice Teacher Education
• Subject: Student Development
• Subject: Student Journals
• Subject: Student Teacher Attitudes
• Subject: Student Teaching
• Subject: Urban Education
• Subject: White Students

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