Examining Preservice Teachers' Culturally Responsive Teaching Self-Efficacy Doubts

Autor: Haeni Alecia Young, Kamau Oginga Siwatu, Angela Ybarra Alejandro, Steven R. Chesnut
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: The Teacher Educator. 51:277-296
ISSN: 1938-8101
0887-8730
DOI: 10.1080/08878730.2016.1192709
Popis: This study was designed to add to the research on teachers' self-efficacy beliefs by examining preservice teachers' culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy doubts. We examined the tasks that preservice teachers felt least efficacious to successfully execute and explored the reasoning behind these self-efficacy doubts. Consequently, we were able to go beyond the quantitative results to generate a comprehensive understanding of these self-efficacy doubts. Preservice teachers recognized the value and utility of culturally responsive classroom practices, yet doubted their ability to successfully implement them (i.e., agent–means perspective). These self-efficacy doubts stemmed from a general lack of knowledge regarding student diversity and culturally responsive pedagogy and experiences observing and working in diverse educational settings. We believe that our study confirms that relying on item-specific scores on teacher self-efficacy measures does not provide the guidance needed for designing intervent...
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