Providing opportunities for reflection is one way to gain a deeper understanding of teacher candidate’s perceptions of diversity and how their perceptions regarding diversity evolve. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of reflections to explore teacher candidate’s perceptions regarding instructional material selection. By prompting teacher candidates to consider their selection of materials to use with diverse learners within inclusive, bilingual, early childhood classrooms, we were able to organize data within themes and use pattern coding to identify subthemes that emerged. The a priori themes included identify, describe, judge, and apply. Various subthemes emerged within teacher candidates’ reflection matrices (general statements on diversity, combination, age, ability, cultural, and individual). Results revealed that teacher candidates increased their consideration of some areas of diversity (i.e., general statements on diversity, cultural) while others stayed constant (i.e., combination, age, ability).

提供反思的机会是一种加深对应聘者对多样性的看法以及他们对多样性的看法如何演变的理解的方式。我们对思考进行了定性的内容分析，以探讨教师候选人对教学材料选择的看法。通过促使教师候选人考虑他们选择的材料，以便在包容性，双语，儿童早期教室中与各种学习者一起使用，我们能够组织主题内的数据并使用模式编码来识别出现的子主题。先验主题包括识别，描述，判断和应用。在教师应聘者的反思矩阵（关于多样性，组合，年龄，能力，文化和个人的一般性陈述）中出现了各种子主题。