Both of these articles i pulled discussed the attitudes of pre-service teachers about homosexual and gay and lesbian issues. Both of them warrant a discussion of similar themes and quotes, plus i want to mention what news they bring to my research.
Article 1- Riggs, A.D, Rosenthal, Amy R., and Smith-Bonahue (2010) the impact of a combined cognitive-affective intervention on pre-service teacher's attiudes, knowledge and anticipated professional behaviors regarding homosexuality and gay and lesbian isusues. Teaching and Teacher Education(27) 201-209
Past research indicated that for the most part, pre-service teachers expressed considerable discomfort dealing with lgbt person's, including colleagues, and ware not likely to engage or begin a classroom discussion on homosexual issues or integrate homosexual themes into curriculum. Past work has shown relationships of behavior and attitude, thus inferring that teacher's with negative attitudes may negatively effect school experiences o fsexual minority students and youth from LGBT families. The study then used a pretest post test design that examined the effect on individuals going to sessions to increase positive attitudes and increase knowledge and willingness to engage in supportive lgbt behaviors.After assessment, 70% of teachers identified that they have never taken a course that included material pertaining to homosexuality or gay and lesbian issues, and that most pre-service teachers have meager knowledge about gay and lesbian issues, showing a potential inability to work with Gay and lesbian students and what they face in education.
Article 2) Silverman, S. (2010) What is Diversity? An Inquiry into Pre-Service Teacher Beliefs. american Education Research Journal (47) 292
After a length discussion about the lack of definition for the term diversity, a survey of preservice teacher beliefs that identified how they perceived concepts like race, class, gender, disabilities, sexual orientation, faith, family values, etc and integrated them into their classroom approach. Ultimately, implications for practice included further reliance on the constructs like diversity and its definitions, as well as teachers need to recognize their capacity as individuals and as a profession to bring about desirable outcomes for students. Future research relevant highlight is that investigation should dvelop on the content of multicultural education.
After reading these two articles, i realized two critical things.
1) Availability on impacts of faculty bias on higher education research is virtually non-existant,
2) if i can assume that teacher education does not receive addressment of lgbt issues, other fields who may need similar education are also in lack.
Thus, my research hopefully will begin to shine light on both of these questions.
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