Transculturalism and Teacher Capacity: Professional Readiness in the Globalised Age

ISBN-13: 9781032087740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 182 str.

Niranjan Casinader

Opis

This book challenges the assumption that all teachers have the expertise to teach cultural understanding and argues instead, that there is the need for teachers to acquire transcultural expertise to teach cultural understanding effectively in the present age, rather than depending on current multicultural and intercultural approaches.

Spis treści

1. Teaching for Cultural Difference: a temporal and spatial reflection;  2. Cultural Understanding and Teaching Expertise: A Glimpse through British Time and Place;  3. Cultural Education for the Globalised Age;  4. Cultural Education in Current Policy and Practice: a selective critique;  5. Measuring Transcultural Capacity in Teachers;  6. Transcultural Capacity of Teachers: a comparative analysis;  7. Building Transcultural Capacity in Teachers: implications for teacher education and professional learning;  Index

O autorze

Niranjan Casinader is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.