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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788167003321

Titolo

Promoting global competence and social justice in teacher education : successes and challenges within local and international contexts / / edited by David Schwarzer and Beatrice L. Bridglall ; contributors, Perien Joniell Boer [and nineteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0437-X

1-4985-0436-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

370.71/1

370.711

Soggetti

Teachers - Training of - Social aspects - United States

Foreign study

International education

Social justice - Study and teaching

Education, Higher - International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Study Abroad; 1 International Student Teaching in Non-Western Cultures; 2 Over There; 3 Culture and Class; 4 International Teaching; 5 Implementing and Sustaining Long-Term Partnerships for International Student Teaching Placements; II: Technology; 6 Promoting Global and Comparative Understandings of Education; 7 Participating in a Technology-Enhanced Internationalization Project to Promote Students' Foreign Language Motivation; 8 Using Technology to Facilitate Collaboration between New Jersey and Namibian Teacher Education Students

9 Our Twelve-Year Journey Internationalizing In-service Science EducationIII: Glocal; 10 Comparative Reflections; 11 Teaching International Struggles for Critical Democratic Education; 12 Exploring the "Glocal" in Urban Teacher Education; 13 Positionality and Glocal



Encounters in Social Studies Teacher Education; Recommendations, Policy, and Practice Supplication; Index; About the Contributors; About the Editors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This book</span><span style=""font-style:italic;""> </span><span>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. </span></span>