美国多元文化教师教育的实施策略与启示

美国多元文化教师教育指美国教师教育领域为了培养职前和在职教师的多元文化教育能力而进行的一系列变革。美国教师教育机构主要采取两大措施开展多元文化教师教育：一是开设专门的课程,同时将多元文化教育理念渗透在整个培养方案中;二是在课程实施中采取自传和反思、基于社区的学习、文化敏感性教学等方式培养教师的多元文化教育知能。这对我国民族地区教师教育的启示是：要重视民族地区教师教育的特殊性,充分挖掘和培育多元文化教师教育资源,为教师提供跨文化体验的机会,强化自主反思与探究。     

美国多元文化教师教育发展综述

美国多元文化教师教育历经近半个世纪的探索,取得了丰富成果。美国多元文化教师教育的兴起有着特定的背景和发展脉络,即从开始注重课程改革,将多元文化教育课程纳入师范生的必修科目,到20世纪90年代中期注重对教师意识形态、性格等方面的研究与培养。此外,美国多元文化教师教育也显现出一系列鲜明的特征。     

多元文化教育探究

多元文化教育是当今世界的一个教育思潮,目前人们对于多元文化教育的理解逐步从狭义的理解发展到更广义的理解,本文介绍分析了它的内涵、理论基础,以及在西方产生和发展的背景和主要内容等,目的在于对我国实现全民教育和教育全球化能有一定的积极作用。     

多元文化素养:教师专业发展的时代要求

多元文化素养是多元文化时代教师所必须具备的重要素质。培养教师的多元文化素养已成为多元文化教育理念下教师教育探讨的核心问题。未来教师必须具备一定的多元文化知识、态度及技能才能胜任其所面对的具有多元文化特征的教育教学工作。文章从知识目标、态度和情感目标、技能目标三个方面审视多元文化教育理念下教师应具备的多元文化素养,以帮助我们更深入地了解其内涵。     

理解型文化研究者:多元文化理解教育中的教师角色

多元文化理解教育中的教师角色应建构为理解型文化研究者.理解并树立多元文化理解教育理念、认识并塑造教师角色的特殊内涵、实践并提升教育智慧是建构理解型文化研究者的定向、基础和催化剂.     

多元文化教育背景下的中小学教师职前培养探析

多元文化教育指平等对待来自不同文化群体的学生之间的差异,使所有学生得到平等教育机会的教育。在我国中小学实施多元文化教育,对中小学教师提出了新挑战,要求中小学教师成为多元文化教师,拥有多元文化知识,对不同文化持积极态度,熟练运用多元教学策略。在我国现行教师教育中,可通过增加多元文化教育课程,增加教学实习机会等途径,使未来教师经过学习、发展以及参与三个阶段,具备实施多元文化教育的能力,成为多元文化教师。     

人性视域下的多元文化教育研究

多元文化教育作为一种跨越文化边界的教育,在当今全球化语境下对文化、人性的影响日益扩大,它投射与印证着在世界新格局下人们对教育与文化、人性等的新认识与新追求。多元文化教育理应承担起全球化时代的新使命,在教育领域实现民族性与国际性的统一,推进世界文化的多元发展,促进人性的日益完善。     

多元文化教育:西方民族教育的实践及其启示

多元文化教育作为西方民族教育的一种理念,经历了5个主要阶段,西方学者对此进行了专门研究。通过比较分析西方多元文化教育与我国民族教育的发展历程及异同,可以为我国民族教育的发展提供有益的启迪。     

西北民族地区义务教育教师多元文化素养现状调查

对西北民族地区6个县级行政区605名义务教育教师进行调查后发现:教师的多元文化素养整体上处于中等水平,还有较大提升空间;教师的多元文化态度水平较高,但多元文化知识和能力有所不足;教师的多元文化素养在城乡、职称、是否担任班主任、所学专业、民族背景等方面均存在一定差异。据分析,民族之间的交往交流交融和教师的教育经历与学习状况是导致上述差异的重要原因。基于此,可采取以下措施提升民族地区教师的多元文化素养:创造民族之间实质性接触机会,促进跨文化互动与交往;在教师教育中体现多元文化素养的培养;深化对不同民族学生学习特点和教学的研究;鼓励教师进行民族文化教育资源和校本课程的开发与利用。     

中美吉三所幼儿园多元文化教育的比较研究

采用现代信息技术,对中国、美国及吉尔吉斯坦共和国三所幼儿园的幼儿在园生活做全方位历时和共时的记录。通过对三园幼儿多元文化教育实践,拓宽幼儿视野,培养幼儿了解、理解、包容和尊重不同文化的态度、技能和知识等方面的比较研究,希望能对我国幼儿的多元文化教育有所启示。     

Multicultural Education From a Pedagogical Perspective: A Response to Radical Critiques

This paper critically reviews radical critiques of multicultural education from a pedagogical perspective. Goals for the paper are: to reveal agreement between radical and multicultural discourse about transformative pedagogy, exemplify a body of literature about pedagogical struggles not recognized by radical critics, and encourage interchange between these groups in regard to critical multicultural education.The authors are interested in transformative, multicultural pedagogy, which is associated with critical multicultural education. They seek to know the extent to which transformative multicultural pedagogy is addressed within radical critiques of multicultural education. They question the extent to which voices of teachers and students engaged in real transformative pedagogy are acknowledged by radical critics.Ideological agreement is found between radical critics and multicultural educators in regard to transformative pedagogy. However, radical critics do not acknowledge this agreement, or perceive multicultural education as transformative. In response, the authors reference a growing body of literature that portrays real, transformative, multicultural pedagogy in action in school and university classrooms. They encourage radical critics to read this literature and consider alliances between radical and multicultural theory and practice.     

Valuing Diversity in the Schools: Learning from Multicultural Counseling for Teachers in the Greek Educational Setting

This paper explores the challenge of diversity in an increasingly multicultural world, and adopts the position that the valuing of diversity can be taught – especially within the context of teacher training and education in general. It gives an overview of major components of diversity training within the context of multicultural counseling, and stresses what counseling can offer teacher training in regard to diversity issues and competencies for the Greek educational setting. Finally, it examines key notions of difference and ‘otherness’ in Greek thought, which can inform contemporary discourse on diversity and multicultural counseling theory and practice.     

Pre-service teachers’ beliefs and knowledge about multiculturalism

The present study examined pre-service teachers’ knowledge of issues related to multiculturalism and diversity before and after taking a multicultural education course. Data from 38 degree students in an urban university in the southwest of Finland were analysed using a mixed method approach. The results indicate that pre-service teachers’ knowledge levels increased with respect to diversity and multicultural education after taking the course. In addition, pre-service teachers felt more competent and prepared to teach students with diverse backgrounds after the exposure. The implications of the findings for teacher education programmes and teacher educators are discussed.     

多元文化教育和后殖民取向

本文介绍了澳大利亚的多元化背景,分析了学校中存在的文化问题的和如何在学校中进行跨文化理解与交流。在此基础上,文章探讨了在后殖民化的过程中的新课程模式、新师范教育方法等。     

Distinguishing Between Multicultural and Global Education: The Challenge of Conceptualizing and Addressing the Two Fields

This qualitative study examines how a group of social studies teachers working in a suburban middle school with a predominantly affluent and white student body conceptualize multicultural and global education. The data reveals that several of the teachers experienced difficulties conceptualizing multicultural and global education, used them interchangeably, and did not articulate their importance to their students. In addition to interviews with teachers, classroom observations were conducted to see how they addressed multicultural and global education in class. The outcomes of this study indicate that pre-service and in-service teacher education should pay attention to delineating the distinct purposes of multicultural and global education and how these concepts can be infused into a social studies curriculum.     

Beginning and end of the internship: student teachers’ interpersonal profiles and the accuracy of their self-beliefs

An important purpose of internships in teacher preparation programmes is to develop competence through experience. The research questions in the present study concern student teachers’ interpersonal profiles (i.e. patterns of their interpersonal behaviour as perceived by students) and the accuracy of their self-belief regarding the interpersonal relationship with students at the beginning and end of the internship. Participants were student teachers (n=34) of a one-year teacher education programme. There were fewer student teachers with preferable interpersonal profiles at the end of the internship than in the beginning. Self-beliefs at the beginning indicated that the majority of student teachers were underestimating themselves; at the end of the internship most of them were overestimating themselves. About two-thirds had more accurate self-beliefs at the end of the internship than at the beginning. Overestimating oneself seemed negatively related to more accurate self-beliefs at the end of the internship and student teachers with more preferable profiles had more accurate self-beliefs.