... that influence career choices, as well as the mechanisms that enable SWDs to succeed in teacher education. Altruistic motivation involves viewing teaching as a socially valuable profession and aspiring to improve societal conditions (Kyriacou and Coulthard, 2000 ; Struyven et al., 2013). SWDs often...

... approach (Beauchamp and Thomas, 2011 ; Grant and Agosto, 2008 ; Lasky, 2005 ; Quan et al., 2019 ; Sachs, 2005 ; Wiltshire, 2024). Multicultural education Critical race theory Teacher education Social justice Educational policy Diversity Equity Inclusion This paper...

...Cherrel Miller Dyce; Jamie Wire; Tyrone Jean; Katrice A. Hawthorne Purpose This paper aims to present a unique approach to preservice teacher education on issues related to interculturality, diversity, equity and inclusion by presenting data from an innovative Intercultural Learning Certificate...

... experiences can lead to both pedagogical transformations and the development of intercultural competence in a global educational context. It underscores the necessity of incorporating structured intercultural training within teacher education programs to better prepare educators for the complexities...

...Tara Schwitzman-Gerst Purpose Most research about combating the whiteness of teacher education neglects to analyze the whiteness of the higher education institutional contexts housing teacher preparation programs. This gap also holds true within research exploring Minority Serving Institutions...

... on analyzing literature. This paper aims to present an alternative to critical literacy education with preservice teachers. Design/methodology/approach Using practitioner action research, the author investigates critical literacy education through documenting preservice teachers and a teacher educator...

...CarolAnn Daniel Purpose This paper argues that to preserve black lives, teacher educators and teacher candidates need to develop a decolonial lens. A decolonial lens can provide clarity in understanding how the centering of Western epistemic perspectives perpetuate hierarchies and processes...

... inform policy and practice in teacher education. Originality/value This study offers hope and guidance for teacher preparation programs and demonstrates that teacher education can and must be a leading contributor to an antiracist society. Teacher preparation Antiracist teaching Urban education...

...Oscar Navarro; Briana Ronan; Ingrid Reyes Patron Purpose This study aims to examine how teacher candidates of Color (TCoCs) experienced and perceived culturally responsive teaching across three teacher education programs at a predominately White institution in the USA. At the time of the study...

...Tasha Austin Purpose This study aims to highlight the planning, process and results of drawing on engaged pedagogy to humanize Blackness in world language (WL) teacher education. The activities were designed to center lived experiences, augment self-reflection and model instructional...

... by the pandemic and to understand changes made in the shift to remote instruction for teacher education at the university level. Design/methodology/approach Two teacher candidate narratives are presented as case studies along with findings from a self-study on the changes necessitated by remote instruction...

... with their K-12th grade students. Originality/value While many studies look at how teacher education programs integrate social justice education into their programs, few researchers follow their students into the K-12 classrooms to investigate if teachers are connecting higher education course work...

... justice-oriented teaching from their lived experience, particularly from their K-12 teachers who showed why this kind of teaching was necessary. Additionally, participants were highly skeptical of whether or not teacher education programs could prepare White preservice teachers to engage in this kind...

.... Originality/value This study contributes to the growing body of research focused on the recruitment and retainment of students of color within teacher education. The suggested implications offer important considerations for practitioners and policymakers regarding the recruitment and retention of students...

... Public school Diversity Equity Teacher education Music The USA is incredibly diverse. Its citizens and residents represent a wide array of nationalities, ethnicities, cultures and religions, each with its own unique, valid and American way of life. As an agency of the state, public education...

...Roxanna Senyshyn; Ann Martinelli Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on a collaborative project and study implemented by two teacher educators in an elementary education program. To prepare teacher candidates for field experiences and practicum in a diverse (bilingual) urban school...

... of these different threads also became visible. Gender interacted strongly with race and religion particularly in narratives related to family and marriage. Race, gender and social class also came together in the representation of the stereotypical dangerous Black man. Teacher education Professional...

...Megan Adams; Sanjuana Rodriguez Purpose Public schools are spaces where capital-T transformation in teachers is needed ( Guillory, 2012 ). To shift schools to places where all communities are valued, teacher education programs must create spaces where shifts in beliefs and practice can occur...

...., 2011). This study indicates that teacher educators must first grow their own knowledge of culturally responsive teaching to develop a culturally responsive program. A teacher preparation program in the Midwest used its local museums to develop a cross-disciplinary clinical experiences (Clark et al...

...Zeki Arsal Purpose This study aims to examine the effect of critical multicultural education on the multicultural attitudes of preservice teachers in a teacher education program. Design/methodology/approach The study sample consisted of 76 preservice teachers enrolled in a teacher preparation...