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Contesting the Violence of Tylerism: Toward a Cosmopolitan Approach to the Curriculum of Second Language Teacher Education
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Anwaruddin, Sardar M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
While the field of second language teacher education (SLTE) has expanded noticeably over the past decade, little attention has been paid to specific approaches to its curriculum. Taking a hidden-curriculum approach, I show that the curriculum of SLTE is focused predominantly on the content, method and assessment of teaching, which I describe as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Education
A Pedagogy of Possibility: Reading Roger Simon in the Wake of Ferguson, Missouri
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Cassily, Shaleen; Clarke-Vivier, Sara – Curriculum Inquiry, 2016
Recent examples of police brutality perpetrated against black bodies have called into question issues of class and race relations in the USA. State forms like schooling reconstitute social and racial inequities and allow the perpetuation of abuses. In this cultural moment, this essay turns to two texts by Roger Simon, "Teaching Against the…
Descriptors: Racial Relations, Freedom, Social Justice, Social Change
Urbanism in Educational Thought: Mobilizing the Teacher through Diversity and Community.
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Hennon, Lisa – 1997
Recent American educational research focuses on the differences between urban and nonurban schools. Ideas such as "inner city" are taken as self-evident and are imposed as a way to achieve a more just and equitable national system of schooling. The urban environment is singled out as violent. This essay takes the position that the…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Cultural Differences, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Teaching Chicano Youth the Sociology of Barrio Social Problems with the Aid of Small Airplane Flights. (An Experiment to Help Reduce Chicano Youth Violence).
Jorquez, Jaime S. – 1983
Chicano youth violence (CYV) is a serious problem, progressively more generalized and vicious and increasingly involving girls and children as assailants and also attacks on old people, whites and Mexican nationals. Becoming romanticized and institutionalized into a subculture, CYV is an important factor in the destruction of authentic Chicano…
Descriptors: Airports, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Colonial Kenya: Cultures in Conflict. Public Issues Series/Harvard Social Studies Project.
Oliver, Donald W.; Newmann, Fred M. – 1968
See TE 499 864, above.
Descriptors: African Culture, Colonialism, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict
Confronting the Nation's Urban Crisis: From Watts (1965) to South Central Los Angeles (1992).
Peterson, George E.; And Others – 1992
What has been learned about making cities better since civil disturbances first arose in American cities is summarized, and guidelines are offered for constructing an urban agenda for improvement. In some respects the country has made real progress since the Watts riots, but in other areas, conditions are unambiguously worse, with increasing…
Descriptors: Crime, Cultural Differences, Demography, Economic Factors
Multiculturalism as a Policy for Disarming Gang Violence in Communities at Large and in Schools.
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Clark, Christine; Jenkins, Morris – 1993
Those who try to deal with violence in U.S. communities and schools have tended to concentrate on suppression of violence, rather than real prevention, particularly as violence is associated with youth gangs. This discussion focuses on multiculturalism as a policy for reducing gang violence, rather than strategies that have been used to deal with…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Delinquency