Award Winner Announcement

Congratulations to Dr Nancy A. Chicola, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of literacy and education.

Dr Chicola’s paper, A View Beyond Tolerance: Teacher Candidate Experiences with Culturally Responsive Education, can be accessed in the online bookstore: http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1497

Paper abstract: Teacher Candidates at Buffalo State College are often white middle class females who have few experiences with diverse populations. In an effort to facilitate learning of knowledge, skills, and dispositions that will help them go beyond teaching tolerance to becoming exemplary teachers in the diverse classrooms they will encounter as they enter the profession, the focus on cultural responsive teaching and multicultural education within the elementary social studies methods course has been expanded to include a rigorous reflective writing assignment. The CREED paper, electronic discussions, as well as class presentations address culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) and multicultural education. This study was conducted to determine the perceived effectiveness of the new assignment and related class presentations and discussions in preparing teacher candidates for the actuality of teaching in diverse classrooms. Fifty teacher candidates engaged in a semester of study and reflection that culminated with the CREED writing assignment. Focus group discussions and perception surveys were implemented at the conclusion of each semester to determine perceptions of competency and needed course revisions related to CRP. The results revealed a discomfort among the participants when reflecting on their own biases, but a strong commitment to making the necessary changes in order to teach in a culturally responsive manner. Additionally, the teacher candidates acknowledged a need for more information and strategies as well as experiences in schools with diverse populations of students to become culturally responsive teachers who will be able to embrace diversity in their own future classrooms.

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International Award – List of Runners Up

• Realising the Educational Potential of Student Tours Zelma Bone and Geoff Watson http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1476
• Storming the Academic Tower? Patriarchy at Work in UK University Education Helen Corr http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1355
• Questioning and Expository Text Comprehension Thelma M. Gunn http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1407
• The Underpinning Knowledge Bases of an Alternative Teacher Education Model Julie Kiggins http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1292
• Elementary Pre-service Teachers' Motivation Towards Science Learning at an Australian University Barbara M Odgers http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1333
• The Adequacy of African Language in Dispensing Modern Technological Cultures Solomon Olanrewaju Makinde http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1393
• Pedagogical Implications of Asynchronous Online Discussion for the Training of Secondary School Teachers in a Multicultural and Non-native English Speaking Setting Brinda Oogarah-Pratap http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1378
• Student Resistance to Radical Feminist Ideologies Juliet Perumal To be published in an upcoming issue
• C2E-Learning in Technical Education: E-Readiness of India Parminder Singh Reel and Kavita Burse http://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1523

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