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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED331796 AUTHOR: Eppenauer, Patricia A.; Smith, William C.
TITLE: Redefining a Knowledge Base: A Proposal for Reform
in an Urban Setting.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 22 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Teacher Educators (70th, Las Vegas,
NV, February 5-8, 1991).
ABSTRACT: Population studies show that teachers of the 21st
century will be educating an urban clientele from a great
variety of cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, and family
structures, and probably, more students who are living in
poverty. In view of these projections, a Division of
Teacher Education has been implemented at the University of
Missouri (Kansas City) with emphasis upon the contextuality
of urban cultural diversity and children-at-risk, global
interrelatedness and interdependence, and around the theme
of reflective inquiry as a viable process for solving
classroom and educational problems. The requirements are a
150-hour (minimum) interdisciplinary program leading to 2
degrees--the Bachelor of Arts in Teaching and the Bachelor
of Liberal Arts. Curricular planning is not based upon a
technical approach but derives from reflection upon the
educational context. Considerable emphasis is placed on
enhanced subject matter and subject area competency,
increased and diverse field experiences, articulation
between subject areas and education courses and the urban
contextual themes of cultural and ethnic diversity, global
perspectives, and students-at-risk. The unifying
methodology is that of reflective inquiry, an
acknowledgement of the program's intent to help teachers
become independent, thoughtful decision makers who may
become leaders and change agents for better schooling.
(AMH)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Bachelors-Degrees; Cultural-Pluralism;
Elementary-Secondary-Education; Higher-Education; Student
Characteristics
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Cultural-Context; *Program-Content;
*Social-Structure; *Teacher-Education-Programs; *Urban
Education
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