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- Title
An Empirical Study of College of Education Faculty’s Perceptions, Beliefs, and Commitment to the Teaching of Diversity in Teacher Education Programs at Four Urban Universities.
- Authors
Smolen, Lynn A.; Colville-Hall, Susan; Xin Liang; Mac Donald, Suzanne
- Abstract
This study used empirical data to investigate College of Education faculty’s perceptions, beliefs, and commitment to diversity. A 44-item survey composed of Likert scale-type questions about characteristics, experiences, perspectives, and personal commitments to addressing diversity issues together with demographic questions, was administered to 116 COE faculty from four urban universities. A MANOVA where the independent variables were the demographic data and the dependent variables were five subscales (importance of diversity, training for pre-service teachers, college support, teaching diversity in courses, and issues of racial sensitivity) identified four statistically significant factors in faculty’s beliefs regarding the importance of diversity. The study found no support for a relationship between the faculty’s beliefs about the importance of teaching diversity and their teaching practices.
- Subjects
TEACHER training; SENSORY perception; BELIEF &; doubt; LIKERT scale; SCALE analysis (Psychology); URBAN education; TEACHING; URBAN universities &; colleges; UNIVERSITY faculty; GRADUATE study in education
- Publication
Urban Review, 2006, Vol 38, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
0042-0972
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11256-005-0022-2