An Examination of a Teacher Education Program's Curriculum for the Inclusion of Multicultural Education Curriculum

• In Event: Critical Consciousness: Implications for Teacher Education Programs in a Global Context

Abstract

The mounting cultural gap between the students in the classroom seats and the teacher’s charged with the facilitating their education and development is undoubtedly going to progress and yet there is an alarming lack of preparation for teachers on how to equitably serve culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The purpose of this study was to analyze course content from a current teacher preparation program for the inclusion of critical multicultural education. The study revealed that similar to current findings across the field of education, the teacher education program in this study utilized a superficial approach to multicultural education that ultimately failed to facilitate the development of the knowledge, skills and dispositions required to be a successful, critical culturally responsive practitioner.

Author

• Denise N. Lara, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi