This book investigates the impact of integrating culturally relevant and
pedagogically dynamic classroom management strategies into the
curriculum of an urban secondary education pre-service methods course.
The book begins by framing the problem of integrating classroom
management into the lives of those learning to teach impact. It then
examines multiple case studies of students from the study's control
cohort who did not have classroom management coursework in their methods
course. After breaking down the challenges encountered by the control
students, the book offers DCMA as a framework from which teacher
educators might create an integrative methods course. The book then
analyzes students from the study's experimental cohort and how they
benefited from such an integrative course throughout their teacher
preparation and into their first year of teaching.