Product Description: Transforming Teacher Education for Social Justice offers teacher educators a new way to think about the development of culturally responsive educators. The authors identify the core components needed to restructure and reorient programs of teacher education to adequately prepare new teachers for the racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse communities they will serve upon graduation...read more

Product Description: Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education reconceptualizes the purpose of education to include the attainment of global or cosmopolitan perspectives. This goal has important implications for how we not only educate today’s students, but also how we prepare teachers to teach in a diverse and complex world in which habits of perspective, inquiry, imagination, empathy, communication, commitment, humility, integrity, and judgment increasingly resonate in importance...read more

Product Description: This book documents how preservice and inservice English teachers negotiate the transfer of the social justice pedagogies they learn in university methods classes to their own work as beginning full-time teachers. Based on a set of teacher narratives, this critical and evidence-based view of English teachers’ interpretations of, responses to, and embodiments of social justice explores the complex shifts and concessions that English teachers often make when transitioning between preservice and inservice spaces – shifts which cause teachers to embrace and negotiate a social justice agenda in their classrooms, or for some, to modify, or even abandon it altogether...read more

Product Description: CULTURAL COMPETENCE: A PRIMER FOR EDUCATORS covers all the basics of multicultural education in less than 300 pages, making it easy for instructors to assign it as a main text or for use in conjunction with other books. Diller and Moule give special attention to the psycho-social dimensions of teaching culturally diverse populations...read more

Product Description: In this skillfully written and incisive book, Marilyn Cochran-Smith guides the reader through the conflicting visions and ideologies surrounding educating teachers in a diverse democratic society. Mapping the way to reconceptualizing the problems in teacher education today, this volume spells out in detail the problem of teacher preparation and why it needs to be understood as both a learning and a political problem...read more

Contends that the desire to boost students' self-esteem has resulted in lowered expectations, narcissism and isolation in students, and emphasis on therapy in the classroom rather than learning.

Product Description: This book considers issues of culture in teacher education including cross-cultural relationships amongst teachers and between teachers and students. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)