Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education

Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts

Contributions by Burcu Ates, Perien Joniell Boer, Alexandra Brown, Marya Burke, Francesca Caena, Steven Camicia, Marialuisa Di Stefano, Wangari Gichiru, Efrat Harel, Matthew Knoester, Katrina Macht, Alan S. Marcus, Leigh Martin, David M. Moss, Mary Petrón, Alison Price-Rom, Sarah Thomas, Tina Waldman, Hilary Wilder, Jacalyn Giacalone Willis, Eleanor Vernon Wilson Edited by David Schwarzer Montclair State University, USA, Beatrice L. Bridglall

Publication date:

06 March 2015

Length of book:

332 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

234x162mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498504355

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. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to acquire a nuanced, global perspective of their subject areas and be prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. To this end, Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education encourages the development of pedagogical strategies that will enable students to consider multiple perspectives and cultivate respect for diverse peoples and cultures.
David Schwarzer and Beatrice L. Bridglall’s Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education: Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts provides insights and ideas on how to globalize teacher education through experiential learning in a variety of contexts and resources. Nowhere else have I seen so many diverse strategies and points of view on global education pedagogy and experiential learning. This book is essential reading for teacher educators who are seeking to provide the experiences and knowledge needed to prepare preservice and inservice teachers for our increasingly complex and interdependent world.