Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education : Successes and Challenges Within Local and International Contexts

Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education reconceptualizes the purpose of education to include the attainment of global or cosmopolitan perspectives. This goal has important implications for how we not only educate today’s students, but also how we prepare teachers to teach in a diverse and complex world in which habits of perspective, inquiry, imagination, empathy, communication, commitment, humility, integrity, and judgment increasingly resonate in importance. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to acquire a nuanced, global perspective of their subject areas and be prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. To this end, Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education encourages the development of pedagogical strategies that will enable students to consider multiple perspectives and cultivate respect for diverse peoples and cultures. Introduction : internationalizing teacher education : successes and challenges within domestic and international contexts / David Schwarzer and Beatrice L. Bridglall -- International student teaching in non-western cultures : a journey of personal and professional transformation on the road to becoming a globally-minded teacher / Leigh Martin -- Over there : exploring a WWII themed short-duration study abroad program for pre-service teachers / David M. Moss and Alan S. Marcus -- Culture and class : Latina pre-service teachers in Costa Rica / Mary Petrón and Burcu Ates -- International teaching : bringing home global perspectives / Sarah Thomas -- Implementing and sustaining long-term partnerships for international student teaching placements / Eleanor Vernon Wilson -- Promoting global and comparative understandings of education : my year-long journey / Alexandra Brown -- Participating in a technology enhanced internationalization project to promote students' foreign language motivation / Tina Waldman and Efrat Harel -- Using technology to facilitate collaboration between New Jersey and Namibian teacher education students / Hilary Wilder and Perien Joniell Boer -- Our 12-year journey internationalizing in-service science education / Jacalyn Giacalone Willis, Katrina Macht, and Marya Burke -- Comparative reflections : glocal experiences in European teacher education / Francesca Caena -- Teaching international struggles for critical democratic education / Wangari Gichiru and Matthew Knoester -- Exploring the "glocal" in teacher education : a journey in un-packing one course / Alison Price-Rom -- Positionality and glocal encounters in social studies teacher education / Steven Camicia and Marialuisa Di Stefano -- Conclusion / David Schwarzer and Beatrice L. Bridglall Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education addresses the growing concern that few practicing teachers in the United States are prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to develop pedagogical strategies that enable students to consider multiple perspectives and cultivate respect for diverse peoples and cultures. This book addresses the growing concern that few practicing teachers in the United States are prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context.