1st Edition

Communicating Social Justice in Teacher Education Insights from a Critical Classroom Ethnography

By Aubrey Huber Copyright 2022
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

Evolving out of ethnographic fieldwork, this text examines how ideas of social justice are articulated and communicated by pre-service teachers and graduate teaching assistants in the US. By positing the concept of "help" as a central tenet of social justice within teacher education, this volume offers a unique performative analysis of how the concept is communicatively constituted in... Read more

Introduction: Teacher as Helper

1: Are you a teacher or what?: Communicating help and social justice
2: Critical Classroom Ethnography
3: Help and Teacher Altruism: Humanization of the Educational Condition
4: Help and Independence: The Road to Self-Reliance
5: Help and Commodity: The Professionalization of Human Resources

Conclusion: Transforming Help

Biography

Aubrey A. Huber is Assistant Professor and Director of Public Speaking in the Department of Communication, University of South Florida, USA. She obtained her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University and is co-author of Creating Performances for Teaching and Learning (2017).