Recounts the beginnings of multiethnic education in the 1960s, when criticism focused on teaching and textbooks. Describes the mid-1970s expansion of multicultural education, with its problems of fragmentary, unsystematic practice and discusses the challenges to multiethnic education in the 1980s from both economic and ideological pressures. (RW)

Proposes a strategy for incorporating multiculturalism into teacher education; examines why future teachers need to develop multicultural competencies, how to integrate general principles of multicultural education and curriculum design into teacher preparation programs, and how to accomplish integration so prospective teachers will be empowered…

Multicultural philosophies, issues, content, materials, and techniques must be infused throughout the entire teacher-education program. This paper discusses sociocultural developments that substantiate the need for multicultural education in teacher education, essential components of multicultural education that must be included, and how and where…

Some of the conceptual connections between general curriculum theory and multicultural education are traced, guided by the concept model of education and curriculum theory developed by George Beauchamp. The major premise is that multicultural education is consistent with, and actually a continuation of, some trends that have long-standing…

Presents 14 design principles that explain good practice in multicultural preservice teacher education. The principles fall under the three main categories of (1) institutional and programmatic principles, (2) personnel principles, and (3) curriculum and instruction principles. (SM)

Promotes the improvement of school success for ethnically diverse students via culturally responsive teachers and the preparation of preservice teachers with necessary knowledge, attitudes, and skills to do this, highlighting: development of a cultural diversity knowledge base; design of culturally relevant curricula; demonstration of cultural…