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Practicing Improvisation: Preparing Multicultural Educators

Karla Hull
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Published Online: 2015-05-07 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mlt-2015-0007

Abstract

Preparing competent multicultural educators involves a dynamic process requiring constant self-reflection and assisting pre-service teachers to sharpen their cultural vision as they learn to be responsive educators. Reflections on lessons learned as a teacher educator are shared through personal experiences that are identified as keys to prepare multicultural educators. The keys include practicing improvisation, the virtue of not-knowing, identifying cultural discontinuity, the dilemma of difference, and opening the door to life’s contingencies.

Keywords: multi-cultural preparation of teachers; self-reflection; cultural discontinuity

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Published Online: 2015-05-07

Published in Print: 2015-09-01


Citation Information: Multicultural Learning and Teaching, Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 183–196, ISSN (Online) 2161-2412, ISSN (Print) 2194-654X, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mlt-2015-0007.

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