46.041 - Preservice and Professional Teachers Working Across Difference: New Documentarian Research on Cultural Competence In-Action

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In this symposium, we are multicultural teacher educators from diverse backgrounds who have spent our lives teaching and researching cultural and linguistic diversity, educational equity, and social justice in schools. As such, we value preservice and professional teachers’ qualitative and narrativized journeys toward cultural competence. In this symposium, we advance practical inquiry in multicultural teacher education that focuses on what we term new documentarian research on cultural competence in-action. Emphasis is placed on what the development of cultural competence looks like not only in propositional-theoretical knowledge but also in teachers’ practices in public school classrooms. Presenters in this symposium document cultural competence in action with special focus on preparing educators for cultural, racial, linguistic, and social class differences.

Sub Unit

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 3: Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Lives: Lived Experiences, Identities, Socialization and Development

Chair

• Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto, The University of Texas - Brownsville

Papers

• Literature on New Documentarian Research on Cultural Competence in-Action - James C. Jupp, Georgia Southern University

• Contradictions in Cultural Competence and Sociopolitical Critique - Alisa Gay Leckie, The University of Arizona

• Documenting Professional Development of Hispana Preservice Teachers - Amanda Morales, Kansas State University

• Advancing Practical Understandings of Teaching Across Difference in Public Schools - Ann Mogush Mason, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Discussant

• Christine E. Sleeter, California State University - Monterey Bay