The Color of Teaching (Educational Change and Development Series) - Hardcover

Gordon, June

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750709979 ISBN 13: 9780750709972

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

One of the major concerns in education at present is how to recruit and attract more teachers from ethnic minorities. In an attempt to move beyond the superficial and simplistic responses as to why these students are not entering teaching this book presents in-depth interviews with over two hundred people from four ethnic groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos. These interviewees, many of them teachers or education professionals, express their attitude towards teaching and their understanding of why others may not choose teaching as a career. One of the most significant and surprising findings is that, regardless of academic or socio-economic standing, students from these ethnic groups tend not to be encouraged to enter the teaching profession by their own families communities and peers. The book concludes with a discussion of programmatic changes and calls for the reconceptualization of the role of teachers. Such changes can only arise out of a fundamental change in attitude of communities of color towards teaching which must be led by teachers themselves.

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June Gordon

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750709979
• ISBN 13: 9780750709972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144