| Description |
Many teacher educators recommend that preservice teachers examine their own backgrounds and experiences to identify assumptions, beliefs, and values, as well as cultural contexts in which they grew up, which impact on how they understand schooling and students.
Self-examination is particularly important as a part of learning to teach students who are culturally different from oneself, and to address institutionalized inequities that permeate students lives both inside and outside of school. For years, Dr. Sleeter has worked to help teachers (both preservice and inservice) understand themselves as cultural
beings, and to understand institutional discrimination well enough to recognize and challenge it in schools.
In this seminar, she will share work she is currently doing with her own family history, to illustrate the power of this form self-examination. |
