Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers: A Coherent Approach

Ana Maria Villegas, Tamara Lucas

State University of New York Press, Dec 13, 2001 - Education - 272 pages

Offering a conceptual framework and practical strategies for teacher preparation in schools with increasingly diverse racial and ethnic student populations, this book presents a coherent approach to educating culturally responsive teachers. The authors focus on the importance of recruiting and preparing a diverse teaching force, as they propose a vision for restructuring the teacher education curriculum, reconceiving the pedagogy used to prepare prospective teachers, and transforming the institutional context in order to support the curricular and pedagogical changes they recommend.

About the author

Ana MariŒa Villegas is a Professor of Curriculum and Teaching at Montclair State University. Tamara Lucas is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers: A Coherent Approach; SUNY series, Teacher Preparation and Development
• Authors: Ana Maria Villegas, Tamara Lucas
• Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0791489256, 9780791489253
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Education / Multicultural Education