Assessing teachers' multicultural and egalitarian beliefs: The Teacher Cultural Beliefs Scale

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 986-996

  Hachfeld, Axinja ^a   Hahn, Adam ^b   Schroeder, Sascha ^a,c   Anders, Yvonne ^a,d   Stanat, Petra ^e   Kunter, Mareike ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^e Institute for Educational Progress   (Germany)

^f GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beginning teachers; Color blindness; Immigrant students; Multiculturalism; Teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958201191     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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