Multicultural Education Professional Development: A Review of the Literature
Multicultural Education Professional Development: A Review of the Literature
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多元文化教育专业发展：文献综述
DOI：
10.3102/0034654319840359
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
11.2
通讯作者：
Virginia R. Massaro
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作者：
H. Parkhouse;Chunping Lu;Virginia R. Massaro
当他们的教师有能力培养包容性和公平的课堂时，来自边缘社区的学生表现出更高的学业成就、动机、自信和自我效能。然而，许多教师在完成预科课程时，感觉自己没有做好准备，无法在文化多元化的课堂上工作，这使得这一领域的高质量专业发展(PD)至关重要。我们对40项以多元文化教育为重点的PD项目的研究进行了元人种学的系统文献综述，以更好地了解此类项目的形式和特点，这些项目有助于教师的自我效能感，并在与不同文化背景的学生合作时取得成功。我们发现了一个小的文献基础，在所研究的项目类型和结果分析中有太多的差异，以得出关于影响有效性的因素的结论。然而，现有的文献确实指出了多文化教育PD的提供者和研究人员的重要问题和考虑。未来研究的一个领域是PD提供者如何应对因抵制多样性和公平讨论而产生的紧张或挑战。另一个是在提供有关学生文化的具体知识和防止宣扬刻板印象或笼统概括之间找到平衡。研究者和PD开发者也应该密切关注他们与教师学习和跨文化教育相关的基本理论。
When their teachers are well equipped to foster inclusive and equitable classrooms, students from marginalized communities show higher rates of academic achievement, motivation, self-confidence, and self-efficacy. However, many teachers complete preparation programs feeling underprepared to work in culturally diverse classrooms, making high-quality professional development (PD) in this area crucial. We undertook a meta-ethnographic, systematic literature review of 40 studies of multicultural education–focused PD programs in order to better understand the forms and features of such programs that contribute to teachers’ self-efficacy and success in working with culturally diverse students. We found a small literature base with too much variation across types of programs studied and outcomes analyzed to draw conclusions about the factors that contribute to effectiveness. However, the extant literature does point to important questions and considerations for both providers and researchers of multicultural education PD. One area for future research is how PD providers navigate tensions or challenges arising from resistance to discussions of diversity and equity. Another is locating the balance between providing specific knowledge about students’ cultures and guarding against promoting stereotypes or broad generalizations. Researchers and PD developers should also pay close attention to their underlying theories related to both teacher learning and multicultural education.