1st Edition

Teacher Education as Cultural Re-appropriation Critical and Theoretical Perspectives from across the Globe

Edited By Helen Eikeland, David Stephens Copyright 2026
190 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This genuinely novel, cutting-edge volume advocates for a teacher education system that re-balances the influences of modernity and tradition, providing a theoretical, critical examination of West-centred notions of teacher education development in order to demonstrate what a culturally re-appropriated teacher education programme of the future might look like.  This book explores theoretical... Read more

Chapter One: Recognition as an Educational Concept in Teacher Education:GRETA MARTHINUSSEN Chapter Two: Tribal learning and Teaching as Cultural Re-appropriation: A case study from rural Norway: HELEN EIKELAND & IVOR GOODSON

 

Chapter Three: Revitalizing Local Pedagogies: Unfolding Attributes of Teachers in Nepal: AWASTHI LAVA DEO, HELEN EIKELAND & KC BHUPENDRA KUMAR

           

Chapter Four: Strengthening the Integration of Climate Education in School and Teacher Education: Curricula for Climate Resilience South Sudan: ANDERS BREIDLID

 

Chapter Five: Global pedagogy and local learning: intersections between play-based pedagogies across formal teacher training and community levels in Ghana: LESLIE CASELY-HAYFORD, JAMES ADAMS & ER-MENANAMANIAMPONG

 

Chapter Six: Indigenous Knowledge and Teacher Education in South Sudan: STEPHEN LUBARI 

 

Chapter Seven: Narrative Capital and the ‘re-selfing’ of migrant Teachers: HELEN EIKELAND &  IVOR GOODSON

 

Chapter Eight: Beyond the Linguistic Borders: Praxis of Multilingualism in Higher & Teacher Education in Nepal : KHEM RAJ JOSHI

Chapter Nine: Re-examining pre-service Mathematics Teacher Education programmes in Nepal from a cultural competence perspective: SARALA LUITEL

 

Conclusions and lessons from the field: HELEN EIKELAND &  DAVID STEPHENS

Biography

Helen Eikeland is Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Agder, Norway. 

David Stephens is Emeritus Professor of International Education, University of Brighton, UK.