1st Edition

Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education Teachers Like Me

By Marcelle M. Haddix Copyright 2016
154 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

154 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education examines how English and literacy teacher education—a space dominated by White, English-monolingual, middle class perspectives—shapes the experiences of preservice teachers of color and their construction of a teacher identity. Significant and timely, this book focuses attention on the unique needs and perspectives of... Read more

Contents

Preface

Chapter One: Being the "Only One": The Importance of Teacher Diversity for Literacy and English Education

Chapter Two: Teacher Educator by Day, Homeschooling Parent by Night: Examining Paradoxes in Being a Black Woman Teacher Educator

Chapter Three: "So-Called" Social Justice Teaching and Multicultural Teacher Education: Rhetoric and Realities

Chapter Four: Becoming "Urban" Teachers: Teaching for Social Justice, Behavior "Management", and Methodological Overload

Chapter Five: Hybrid Teacher Identities: Sustaining Our Racial and Linguistic Selves in the Classroom

Chapter Six: The Counterlanguages and Deliberate Silences of Preservice Teachers of Color

Chapter Seven: New Voices, New Identities: Diversifying the Literacy and English Teacher Force

Appendix A: A Note on Methodology

Appendix B: Transcription Coding System

Biography

Marcelle M. Haddix is Dean’s Associate Professor and Chair of the Reading and Language Arts department at Syracuse University, USA.