Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Aims & Objectives

Challenging the current state of public education and teacher preparation, this book argues for a re-imagination of teacher education through a critical feminist and critical education perspective. Offering a rich discussion of the promise and pedagogy of self-reflexivity and "testimonio," which emerges from critical feminism, this book brings together theory and practice in critical feminism, critical education, and "testimonio "to serve as a platform in which to reconceptualize the philosophy of traditional teacher education, arguing that too many programs prepare teachers who often...

Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics and approaches to language in education. Carolyn McKinney uses the lens of linguistic ideologies teachers and students beliefs about language to shed light on the continuing problem of reproduction of linguistic inequality. Framed within global debates in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, she examines the case of historically white schools in South Africa, a post-colonial context where political...

Imagined at their best, how might professions contribute most effectively to their local and global communities, and how could higher education support graduates/future professionals in making this contribution? The answer proposed in this book is to educate students for civic-mindedness, an overarching professional capability grounded in certain dispositions and qualities, ideals, types of knowledge and political emotions. Civic-mindedness, and its internal counterpart, the practitioner s self-cultivation, give rise to an engagement with professional practice that is authentic, civic and...

Imagined at their best, how might professions contribute most effectively to their local and global communities, and how could higher education support graduates/future professionals in making this contribution? The answer proposed in this book is to educate students for civic-mindedness, an overarching professional capability grounded in certain dispositions and qualities, ideals, types of knowledge and political emotions. Civic-mindedness, and its internal counterpart, the practitioner s self-cultivation, give rise to an engagement with professional practice that is authentic, civic and...