Shifting from Diversity in Multicultural Populations to Teacher/Student Interactions within Transcultural Spaces in an Online Literacy Teacher Education Course

Patriann Smith, Janet Richards, Sara Hajek, Judy Schaffer-Rose, Alex Kumi-Yeboah

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Abstract

Increasing diversity in student populations necessitates literacy coursework that offers teachers knowledge and experiences to meet these learners’ instructional requirements. Concomitantly, master’s online literacy teacher degree programs are the norm. Thus, online programs must support teachers as they learn to modify their perceptions about students who differ from them in order to foster students’ self-worth and learning. Accordingly, in this inquiry, we explored a graduate online literacy program that focuses on supporting teachers as they learn to acknowledge differences between themselves and their students rather than differences within certain student populations as teachers operate from positions of power.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalLiteracy Practice and Research
StatePublished - 2017

Keywords

  • literacy
  • teacher education
  • online learning
  • culture
  • distance learning
  • transcultural
  • language

Disciplines

  • Education
  • Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
  • International and Comparative Education
  • Elementary Education
  • Secondary Education
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • International and Area Studies
  • Linguistics
  • Social Work
  • Social Justice

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