Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers: A Coherent Approach

Educating Culturally Responsive Teachers: A Coherent Approach, by Ana Maria Villegas & Tamara Lucas. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2002, 246 pp. $21.95, paperback. central claim in this book is that in order to facilitate coherence across coursework and fieldwork, of teacher education need to articulate a vision of the role of schools and of the processes of teaching and in a multicultural (p. 197). Courses and field experiences can become more successful, the authors argue, only through developing and upholding a strong, guiding, vision among faculty, administrators, and students in any teacher preparation program. The vision we have proposed is anchored in the belief that a primary role of schools is to…