Keeping It Real: Teaching and Learning about Culture, Literacy, and Respect

• Published in: English education Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 267 - 277
• Main Author: Willis, Arlette Ingram
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Urbana National Council of Teachers of English 01.07.2000
• Subjects: Adult Literacy; African American culture; American literature; Beliefs; Critical theory; Cultural Awareness; Cultural Background; Cultural instruction; Culture; Discussion (Teaching Technique); Diversity (Student); English Teacher Education; Ethnicity; Females; Field Experience Programs; Gender; Higher Education; Learning; Literacy; Literacy Education; Literature; Methods Courses; Middle Class; Minority Group Students; Multicultural Education; Multiculturalism; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Multilingualism; Political Attitudes; Preservice Teacher Education; Race; Racial Bias; Racism; Reading Instruction; Relationship Identification; Religious Factors; Respect; Self Reflection; Sexual orientation; Social Change; Society; Student Attitudes; Student Diversity; Students; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher education; Teacher Education Curriculum; Teacher Education Programs; Teacher Educators; Teacher Improvement; Teacher Needs; Teaching; New York; United States > US
• ISSN: 0007-8204; 1943-2216
• DOI: 10.58680/ee20001555

Describes one teacher education program designed to broaden students’ thinking about the influences of culture in society, and teaching and learning about literacy. Offers an “unromanticized glimpse” into the lives of teacher education students as they struggle to come to terms with their transformation as literacy educators preparing to teach literacy in multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual classrooms of the 21st century.