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EJ653012 SP530441

Title: Leaving Authority at the Door: Equal-Status Community-Based Experiences and the
Preparation of Teachers for Diverse Classrooms.
Author(s): Seidl, Barbara; Friend, Gloria
Source: Teaching and Teacher Education, v18 n4 p421-33 May 2002
Publication Date: 2002
ISSN: 0742-051X
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Journal Announcement: CIJJAN2003

Describes a cross-cultural, equal status internship designed to prepare teachers for
diverse classrooms, examining its influence on prospective teachers' emerging sociocultural
perspectives and raced identities and exploring successes and challenges of this experience
and what has been learned about supporting more mature anti-racist identities in the 3 years
that students have been engaged in this internship.(SM)

Descriptors: Black Students; Consciousness Raising; *Cultural Awareness; *Diversity
(Student); Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Internship Programs;
Interpersonal Relationship; Multicultural Education; Preservice Teacher Education; School
Community Relationship; *Student Teacher Attitudes
Identifiers: *Antiracist Education