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Integrating Language Diversity into Teacher Education Curricula in a Rural Context: Candidates' Developmental Perspectives and Understandings.
Teacher Education Quarterly (2012)
  • Jeasik Cho, University of Wyoming
  • Francisco Rios, University of Wyoming
  • Allen Trent, University of Wyoming
  • Kerrita K. Mayfield
Abstract
 This study took place at the University of Wyoming, located in the rural mountain West. The University of Wyoming, with approximately 13,000 students, is the only four-year university in the state. The teacher education population of the College of Education is about 600, and demographically, this population is about 90% White, predominately female, and from rural communities across the state and other states that border Wyoming. Likewise, most school districts  in the state of Wyoming are less diverse (ethnically, racially, and linguistically) than the national averages. Given this context, the College of Education has tried to address issues of diversity at the program level over the last decade or so. The inclusion of topics related to issues of diversity in education has been evident in many courses across different departments in the College. Still, most of these efforts were largely made at the course level, as opposed to being made collaboratively at the program level to assure a continuity of diversity components across courses.
Keywords
  • Curriculum development,
  • Educational studies
Publication Date
Spring 2012
Publisher Statement
Published by Caddo Gap Press

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23479672 
Citation Information
Jeasik Cho, Francisco Rios, Allen Trent and Kerrita K. Mayfield. "Integrating Language Diversity into Teacher Education Curricula in a Rural Context: Candidates' Developmental Perspectives and Understandings." Teacher Education Quarterly Vol. 39 Iss. 2 (2012) p. 63 - 85
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/francisco_rios/71/