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Walking the Road: Race, Diversity, and Social Justice in Teacher Education
Contributor(s): Cochran-Smith, Marilyn (Author), Banks, James a. (Editor)
ISBN: 0807744336     ISBN-13: 9780807744338
Publisher: Teachers College Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2004
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Multicultural Education
- Education | Professional Development
- Education | Aims & Objectives
Dewey: 370.711
LCCN: 2003066284
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.08" W x 9.52" (0.73 lbs) 224 pages
 
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In this skillfully written and incisive book, Marilyn Cochran-Smith guides the reader through the conflicting visions and ideologies surrounding the education of teachers for a diverse democratic society. Mapping the way to reconceptualizing teacher education today, this volume:

  • Spells out, in detail, the problem of teacher preparation and why it needs to be understood as both a learning and a political problem.
  • Explores an urban teaching program and how its participants came to understand race, diversity, and multicultural issues as part of the larger process of learning to teach.
  • Explains why "unlearning" is an unavoidable part of the journey to teaching and teacher education for social justice.
  • Uncovers political agendas and their serious implications for the teaching profession itself.
  • Offers a much-needed framework for understanding and sorting out the multiple meanings of concepts related to multicultural issues and social justice in teacher education policy.