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Book Synopsis
Offers a counternarrative to neoliberal standardized preservice teacher development and assessment processes. The author examines how a cohort of teacher educators worked alongside their preservice teachers - both groups predominately White and female - to redesign their teacher education program.

Table of Contents
  • Contents (Tentative)
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • "The Bubble"
  • Place-Based Education and Its Potential
  • A Dynamic Charge for Teacher Education
  • 1.  The Need for Place-Based Teacher Education
  • Contexts for the Book
  • Three Challenges Connecting the Places
  • Why We Needed Place-Based Teacher Education
  • Neoliberal Challenges to Place-Based Teacher Education
  • Reclaiming Accountability
  • Challenges of Reclaiming Accountability
  • What's Next?
  • 2.  Theoretical Framework
  • The Nature of Meaning-Making
  • Three Approaches to Place-Based Education
  • Humanizing Place-Based Education in School Classrooms
  • Place-Based Teacher Education
  • Negotiation: Sensing and Resisting Neoliberal Policies
  • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  • What's Next?
  • 3.  The Narrative Portfolio Project
  • Context of the Teacher Education Program
  • The Narrative Portfolio as a Counter-Narrative to Failure
  • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  • What's Next?
  • 4.  Resisting Neoliberalism Through Place-Based Narrative Portfolio Work
  • Getting Lost in Places
  • Vignette 1. Critical Reflection on Place
  • Vignette 2. Dialogue With Place in Mind
  • Vignette 3. Transforming I-It to I-You
  • Vignette 4. Diffraction: Bending Around Barriers
  • Conclusion
  • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  • What's Next?
  • 5.  Pairing Our Place-Based Approach With Racial Justice
  • Anti-Racist Education
  • COVID-19 and Anti-Racist Teaching
  • Place-Based Education Post-Graduation
  • Conclusion
  • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  • What's Next?
  • 6.  Practice and Policy Implications
  • Teacher Education Program Assessment in the "Cluster"
  • Transforming Teacher Education Assessment
  • The Change Process
  • Suggestions for Practice
  • Conclusion
  • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
  • What's Next?
  • Methodology Appendix. Capturing Meanings of Place-Based Education and Assessment
  • Background for the Study
  • Method
  • Appendix A. Lenses of Teacher Education and Revised "10 Characteristics of the Novice Teacher" for PDS Mentors and Faculty Professional Development
  • Appendix B. A Portrait of Becoming: The Stories of a Teacher and Their Learners
  • Our Places
  • Learners and Teachers
  • Beginning the Year . . . Looking and Seeing as an Ethnographer
  • Exploring the Literature: Disrupting the Commonplaces
  • Our Journey
  • Our Learning
  • A Reflective Pause With an Eye to the Future
  • Final Thoughts
  • Appendix C. Destiny's Stamped by Reynolds & Kendi (2020) Community Book Club Plan (Abbreviated Version)
  • Endnotes
  • References
  • Index

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
      Publication Date: 2/24/2023 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780807768228, 978-0807768228
      ISBN10: 0807768227
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers a counternarrative to neoliberal standardized preservice teacher development and assessment processes. The author examines how a cohort of teacher educators worked alongside their preservice teachers - both groups predominately White and female - to redesign their teacher education program.

      Table of Contents
      • Contents (Tentative)
      • Foreword
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction
      • "The Bubble"
      • Place-Based Education and Its Potential
      • A Dynamic Charge for Teacher Education
      • 1.  The Need for Place-Based Teacher Education
      • Contexts for the Book
      • Three Challenges Connecting the Places
      • Why We Needed Place-Based Teacher Education
      • Neoliberal Challenges to Place-Based Teacher Education
      • Reclaiming Accountability
      • Challenges of Reclaiming Accountability
      • What's Next?
      • 2.  Theoretical Framework
      • The Nature of Meaning-Making
      • Three Approaches to Place-Based Education
      • Humanizing Place-Based Education in School Classrooms
      • Place-Based Teacher Education
      • Negotiation: Sensing and Resisting Neoliberal Policies
      • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
      • What's Next?
      • 3.  The Narrative Portfolio Project
      • Context of the Teacher Education Program
      • The Narrative Portfolio as a Counter-Narrative to Failure
      • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
      • What's Next?
      • 4.  Resisting Neoliberalism Through Place-Based Narrative Portfolio Work
      • Getting Lost in Places
      • Vignette 1. Critical Reflection on Place
      • Vignette 2. Dialogue With Place in Mind
      • Vignette 3. Transforming I-It to I-You
      • Vignette 4. Diffraction: Bending Around Barriers
      • Conclusion
      • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
      • What's Next?
      • 5.  Pairing Our Place-Based Approach With Racial Justice
      • Anti-Racist Education
      • COVID-19 and Anti-Racist Teaching
      • Place-Based Education Post-Graduation
      • Conclusion
      • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
      • What's Next?
      • 6.  Practice and Policy Implications
      • Teacher Education Program Assessment in the "Cluster"
      • Transforming Teacher Education Assessment
      • The Change Process
      • Suggestions for Practice
      • Conclusion
      • Questions for Reflection and Discussion
      • What's Next?
      • Methodology Appendix. Capturing Meanings of Place-Based Education and Assessment
      • Background for the Study
      • Method
      • Appendix A. Lenses of Teacher Education and Revised "10 Characteristics of the Novice Teacher" for PDS Mentors and Faculty Professional Development
      • Appendix B. A Portrait of Becoming: The Stories of a Teacher and Their Learners
      • Our Places
      • Learners and Teachers
      • Beginning the Year . . . Looking and Seeing as an Ethnographer
      • Exploring the Literature: Disrupting the Commonplaces
      • Our Journey
      • Our Learning
      • A Reflective Pause With an Eye to the Future
      • Final Thoughts
      • Appendix C. Destiny's Stamped by Reynolds & Kendi (2020) Community Book Club Plan (Abbreviated Version)
      • Endnotes
      • References
      • Index

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