Re-Designing Teacher Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Through a critical-ecological lens, this book examines how to prepare preservice teachers to be resourceful and responsive practitioners in addressing the intellectual needs of children often labeled as "e;culturally and linguistically diverse."e; It explores a comprehensive re-design of a teacher education program grounded in research on the complex factors that affect the teaching and learning of linguistically and culturally diverse children. Re-Designing Teacher Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students challenges hegemonic cultural and linguistic norms, quantitative and static views of "e;resources,"e; the impact of U.S. education policy, and the limited attention to the agency, identities, and strategic actions of diverse students and their families.