1st Edition
Urban Teacher Education and Teaching Innovative Practices for Diversity and Social Justice
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Routledge
280 Pages
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Routledge
280 Pages
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Routledge
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This volume illuminates the most pressing challenges faced by urban schools, teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher training programs and offers a range of insights and possibilities for urban teacher education and teaching. Covering issues spanning the broadly theoretical to the urgently practical, it goes beyond the traditional discourses in teacher education to focus on diversity, social... Read more
Contents: P.C. Murrell, Jr., Foreword. Preface. R.P. Solomon, D.N.R. Sekayi, Introduction. Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Framing of Urban Schooling. Introduction to Part I. S. James-Wilson, Using Representation to Conceptualize a Social Justice Approach to Urban Teacher Preparation. B-J. Daniel, Developing Educational Collectives and Networks: Moving Beyond the Boundaries of “Community” in Urban Education. L. Weiner, Gender, Power, and Accountability in Urban Teacher Education: Tensions of Women Working With Women. Part II: Pre-Service Teacher Preparation for Urban Transformation. Introduction to Part II. R.P. Solomon, R.K. Manoukian, J. Clarke, Pre-Service Teachers as Border-Crossers: Linking Urban Schools and Communities Through Service Learning. H. Smaller, Moving Beyond Institutional Boundaries in Inner-City Teacher Education. P.A. Young, Thinking Outside the Box: Fostering Racial & Ethnic Discourses in Urban Teacher Education. C.H. Gentles, Critical Pedagogy and Authoritarian Culture: Challenges of Jamaican Migrant Teachers in American Urban Schools. H. Evans, J. Tucker, Confronting Post-Colonial Legacies Through Pre-Service Teacher Education: The Case of Jamaica. Part III: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Advocacy in Urban Settings. Introduction to Part III. D.N.R. Sekayi, Student Resistance to Culturally Irrelevant Curriculum and Pedagogy: The Role of Critical Consciousness. R. Minott-Bent, Integrating Computer-Facilitated Learning in Urban Schools: The Challenges to a Pre-Service Teacher. W. Brooks, The Literary Voices of Urban Adolescents: Multi-Factor Influences on Textual Interpretations. R.P. Solomon, A.M.A. Allen, A. Campbell, The Politics of Advocacy, Strategies for Change: Diversity and Social Justice Pedagogy in Urban Schools. C. Reid, The Confluence of Teacher Education and Inner-City Activism: A Reciprocal Possibility.
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R. Patrick Solomon (Edited by) , Dia N. R. Sekayi (Edited by)
