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Book SynopsisThis volume explores how Self-Study in Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) contribute to teacher education in culturally and linguistically diverse communities and contexts. The chapters reflect the scholarly inquiry of teacher educators dedicated to investigating and opening to public scrutiny their efforts to improve their practice, while recognizing the impacts of such efforts on their students and teacher education overall. The common thread in these S-STEP inquiries is the explicit attention to the ways in which culture, language, and race interact and affect teaching and learning.
Central to this are the ways in which S-STEP studies address two pressing but interrelated issues in teacher education research: the need for greater attention to teacher educator development and pedagogies overall, and the challenge of preparing teachers for increasingly diverse, mobile, and plurilingual schools and communities.
The book will be a valuable resource for teacher educators, particularly second language teacher education scholars and those new to S-STEP methods.
Trade ReviewEducation scholars, many specializing in language education, explore teacher education professional development in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts: a lifelong process, and pedagogical practices and policies related to linguistic diversity and language development. Their topics include the accidental teacher educator: learning to be a language teacher educator within diverse populations, reframing the use of visual literacy through academic diversity: a cross-disciplinary collaborative self-study, impacting classrooms and ourselves: a self-study investigation of work with and within an indigenous Pueblo community, cycles of research: a self-study of teaching research in a sheltered English instruction course, and moving beyond très bien: examining teacher mediation in lesson rehearsals. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
This book, a collection of 13 different inquiries utilizing self-study methodology...provides a very timely and critical contribution to the second language teacher education literature. Moreover, these diverse inquiries rooted in self-study in teacher education practices (S-STEP) each intentionally address the need for teachers to be prepared to work with linguistically and culturally diverse students. -- Tamara Mae Roose
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Enhancing Teacher Education for an Inclusive Pluralistic World: A Shared Commitment across Multiple Landscapes;
Judy Sharkey and Megan Madigan Peercy Part I: Teacher Educator Professional Development in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Contexts: A Lifelong Process 1. The Accidental Teacher Educator: Learning to Be a Language Teacher Educator Within Diverse Populations;
Shawn Bullock 2. Using Self-Study to Examine Our Research and Teaching Practices as EFL Teacher Educators in Colombia;
Amparo Clavijo Olarte and Maribel Ramírez Galindo 3. Getting Down to Identities to Trace a New Career Path: Understanding Novice Teacher Educator Identities in Multicultural Education Teaching;
Vy Dao, Scott Farver, and Davena Jackson 4. Discursive Resources in a Multicultural Education Course: Unpacking Our Own Unexplored Biases as Teacher Educators;
Laura C. Haniford and Brian Girard 5. Developing an Inquiry Stance in Diverse Teacher Candidates: A Self-Study By Four Culturally, Ethnically, and Linguistically Diverse Teacher Educators;
Amber Strong Makaiau, Karen Ragoonaden, Jessica Ching-Sze Wang, and Lu Leng 6. Reframing Our Use of Visual Literacy through Academic Diversity: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaborative Self-Study;
Bethney Bergh, Christi Edge, and Abby Cameron-Standerford Part II: Pedagogical Practices and Policies Related to Linguistic Diversity and Language Development 7. Preparing Teachers for English Learners in Rural Settings;
Kathleen Ann Ramos 8. Facilitating Preservice Teachers’ Transformation through Intercultural Learning: Reflections from a Self-Study;
Roxanna M. Senyshyn 9. Impacting Classrooms and Ourselves: A Self-Study Investigation of Our Work with and within an Indigenous Pueblo Community;
Cheryl A. Franklin Torrez and Marjori M. Krebs 10. Sifting through Shifting Sands: Confronting the Self in Teaching Bilingual Emirati Preservice Teachers;
Patience A. Sowa 11. Cycles of Research: A Self-Study of Teaching Research in a Sheltered English Instruction Course;
Elizabeth A. Robinson 12. Toward a Coherent Approach to Preparing Teachers to Teach Language to Emergent Bilingual Learners: Self-Study in TESOL Teacher Education;
Laura Schall-Leckrone, Lucy Bunning, and Maria da Conceicao Athanassiou 13. Moving Beyond ‘Très Bien’: Examining Teacher Educator Mediation in Lesson Rehearsals;
Francis John Troyan and Megan Madigan Peercy
