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It's Not the Culture of Poverty, It's the Poverty of Culture: The Problem with Teacher Education
Author(s) -
LadsonBillings Gloria
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2006.37.2.104
Subject(s) - poverty , construct (python library) , sociology , perspective (graphical) , educational anthropology , pedagogy , teacher education , social science , mathematics education , psychology , educational research , political science , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , programming language
The preparation of novice teachers is dominated by psychological notions almost to the exclusion of other social science paradigms. The perspective that is least likely to be evident in teacher preparation is that of anthropology. However, prospective and novice teachers regularly and loosely use the word “culture” as an explanation for student patterns of behavior they cannot explain. This discussion focuses on the ways prospective and novice teachers construct culture simultaneously as both the problem and the answer to their struggles with students different from themseles.