ABSTRACT
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 justice, democratic schooling, and community building. What emerges is an emphatic message of hope for those committed to the ongoing project of improving urban teacher education and working in urban settings.
Contributors from Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean bring rich and divergent knowledges, perspectives, and cultural experiences to their discussion of the three central themes around which the book is organized:
• the conceptual framing of key issues in urban schooling;
• pre-service teacher preparation for urban transformation; and
• culturally relevant pedagogy and advocacy in urban settings.
This book is intended for all students, practitioners, and researchers involved in urban education. It is appropriate as a text for student teaching and field experience seminars, and for courses dealing with social issues, educational policy, curriculum development, and multicultural teacher education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|49 pages
Theoretical and Conceptual Framing of Urban Schooling
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
Using Representation to Conceptualize a Social Justice Approach to Urban Teacher Preparation
chapter Chapter 4|15 pages
Gender, Power, and Accountability in Urban Teacher Education: Tensions of Women Working With Women
part II|98 pages
Pre-Service Teacher Preparation for Urban Transformation
chapter Chapter 5|21 pages
Pre-Service Teachers as Border Crossers: Linking Urban Schools and Communities Through Service Learning
chapter Chapter 7|20 pages
Thinking Outside the Box: Fostering Racial and Ethnic Discourses in Urban Teacher Education
chapter Chapter 9|16 pages
Confronting Postcolonial Legacies Through Pre-Service Teacher Education: The Case of Jamaica
part III|77 pages
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Advocacy in Urban Settings