Problematizing Finland's Pursuit of Intercultural (Kindergarten) Teacher Education

Autor/inn/en	Layne, Heidi; Dervin, Fred
Titel	Problematizing Finland's Pursuit of Intercultural (Kindergarten) Teacher Education
Quelle	In: Multicultural Education Review, 8 (2016) 2, S.118-134 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dervin, Fred)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2005-615X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Multicultural Education; Kindergarten; Preservice Teacher Education; Case Studies; Interviews; Preschool Teachers; Preservice Teachers; Teacher Educators; Content Analysis; Cultural Awareness; Attitude Measures; Emotional Response; Caring; Finland (Helsinki) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerbildung; Inhaltsanalyse; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Emotionales Verhalten; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung
Abstract	The argument that teachers should become ethical intercultural teachers is increasingly recognized as legitimate. This article presents a case study in kindergarten teacher education in Finland, a country that has been at the center of global discussions about quality education. The authors question the agenda for studying and teaching in an intercultural kindergarten teacher education program. The adopted theoretical framework problematizes the discursive relationships between desire, politics of interculturality, and interculturality itself in teacher education. Interviews were conducted with seven student-teachers and three teacher-educators. The data were analyzed using critical content analysis. The research findings reveal unstable and often problematic discourses of interculturality in teacher education, and suggest some guidelines for strengthening it further in this context but also in higher education in general. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01