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Cultivating Diversity Through Critical Literacy in Teacher Education

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Literacy Teacher Educators

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Those of us who have the privilege and responsibility of teaching literacy teachers are charged with designing learning experiences that support their development of the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to work confidently with culturally and linguistically diverse children and families, especially those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Rogers, R. (2013). Cultivating Diversity Through Critical Literacy in Teacher Education. In: Kosnik, C., Rowsell, J., Williamson, P., Simon, R., Beck, C. (eds) Literacy Teacher Educators. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-200-6_2

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