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Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work with Diverse Student Populations: Implications for Visual Art Teacher Education

Knight, Wanda Bridges
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392812767

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2000, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Art Education.
This research investigates how future art teachers are being prepared to teach diverse student populations. This topic is particularly important because today's art teachers are being required to work with increasingly diverse student populations in the classroom. The review of literature suggests there are multiple interpretations of what multicultural education is. Further, the review of literature indicates there is no consensus among teacher educators on how to prepare teachers for classrooms representing multicultural student populations. The study contains three research questions. One research question in this study asks: how and to what extent are visual arts preservice teachers being prepared to work with learners whose backgrounds are different from their own and from that of others? Another question asks: how and to what extent are visual arts preservice teachers being prepared to function non-ethnocentrically within pluralistic classrooms and schools? The final question asks: how and to what extent are visual arts preservice teachers being prepared to provide discipline-based art education instruction about the pluralism of U.S. society? A case study design was utilized to obtain data on the art teacher education program. Sources of data collection included classroom observations and survey research. The open and close-ended questionnaire was designed and mailed to 170 University's art teacher education program. Information from the survey questionnaire is presented descriptively and in tables and figures. Consistent with anticipated outcomes, the results of the study revealed that a large number of teachers were not provided with the instruction or experiences in their teacher education program that would allow them to meet the needs of diverse student populations. The study concludes that there is a need to redefine/reshape teacher training to improve the capacity of teachers to teach in a multicultural context.
Vesta Daniel (Advisor)
Arthur Efland (Committee Member)
Susan Witten (Committee Member)
212 p.
Art Education

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  • Knight, W. B. (2000). Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work with Diverse Student Populations: Implications for Visual Art Teacher Education [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392812767

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Knight, Wanda. Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work with Diverse Student Populations: Implications for Visual Art Teacher Education. 2000. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392812767.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Knight, Wanda. "Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work with Diverse Student Populations: Implications for Visual Art Teacher Education." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392812767

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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