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Looking Over the Edge: Preparing Teachers for Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Middle Schools

The principles and practices of multicultural education became the heart of one middle school teacher education program. The five principles included fostering inter/intragroup harmony through learning communities, targeting social justice and affirmation of diversity, empowering students and teachers, seeing things from multiple perspectives, and preparing teachers explicitly for cultural and linguistic diversity. (SM)

• Author/Creator: Rios, Francisco A., Stowell, Laura P., Christopher, Patricia A., McDaniel, Janet E.
• Date Published: Fall
• Journal/Secondary Title: Teacher Education Quarterly
• Number: 4
• Volume: 24
• Year: 1997

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: Diversity (Student)
• Subject: Educational Change
• Subject: Higher Education
• Subject: Intermediate Grades
• Subject: Junior High Schools
• Subject: Language Minorities
• Subject: Middle Schools
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Preservice Teacher Education
• Subject: Student Empowerment
• Subject: Student Teacher Attitudes
• Subject: teacher empowerment

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