EJ605851 SP528323
Title: Preservice Teachers Integrate Understandings of Diversity Into Literacy
Instruction: An Adaptation of the ABC's Model.
Author(s): Xu, Hong
Source: Journal of Teacher Education, v51 n2 p135-42 Mar-Apr 2000
Publication Date: April 2000
ISSN: 0022-4871
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJOCT2000
Investigated preservice teachers' understandings of their own and their students'
cultural
backgrounds, examining how they integrated those understandings into
literacy instruction.
The ABC model (autobiographies, biographies of students,
cross-cultural analysis, analysis of
cultural differences, and classroom practices)
helped stimulate students to continue
examining their lives, their cultural/linguistic
backgrounds, and the impact of those factors
on teaching diverse students.
(SM)
Descriptors: Biographies; Case Studies; Classroom Techniques;
Cultural Awareness; *Cultural
Background; Cultural Differences; *Cultural
Influences; *Diversity (Student); Elementary
Secondary Education; Higher
Education; *Literacy Education; Multicultural Education;
Preservice Teacher
Education; Reading Instruction; Student Teacher Attitudes; Student
Teachers;
Teacher Background
