Download or read book Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers written by Ana Maria Villegas and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-12-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a conceptual framework and practical strategies for teacher preparation in schools with increasingly diverse racial and ethnic student populations, this book presents a coherent approach to educating culturally responsive teachers. The authors focus on the importance of recruiting and preparing a diverse teaching force, as they propose a vision for restructuring the teacher education curriculum, reconceiving the pedagogy used to prepare prospective teachers, and transforming the institutional context in order to support the curricular and pedagogical changes they recommend.