Developing Culturally and Historically Sensitive Teacher Education: Global Lessons from a Literacy Education Program (Reinventing Teacher Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350210609 ISBN 13: 9781350210608

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the UK Literacy Association's Academic Book Award 2021 This volume explores the literacy education master’s degree program developed at Universidad de Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico, with the aim of addressing the nation’s emerging social, economic, technological, and political needs. Developing the program required taking into account the cultural diversity, historical economic disparities, indigenous and colonial cultures, and power inequities of the Mexican nation. These conditions have produced economic structures that maintain the status quo that concentrates wealth and opportunity in the hands of the very few, creating challenges for the education and economic life for the majority of the population. The program advocates providing tools for youth to critique and change their surroundings, while also learning the codes of power that provide them a repertoire of navigational means for producing satisfying lives. Rather than arguing that the program can be replicated or taken to scale in different contexts, the editors focus on how their process of looking inward to consider Mexican cultures enabled them to develop an appropriate educational program to address Mexico’s historically low literacy rates. They show that if all teaching and learning is context-dependent, then focusing on the process of program development, rather than on the outcomes that may or may not be easily applied to other settings, is appropriate for global educators seeking to provide literacy teacher education grounded in national concerns and challenges. The volume provides a process model for developing an organic program designed to address needs in a national context, especially one grounded in both colonial and heritage cultures and one in which literacy is understood as a tool for social critique, redress, advancement, and equity.

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About the Author

<b>Claire Battershill </b>is Government of Canada Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is the author of <i>Circus </i>(2014); co-author (with Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley, Michael Widner, Elizabeth Willson Gordon, and Nicola Wilson) of <i>Scholarly Adventures in Digital Humanities</i> (2017); and co-author (with Shawna Ross) of <i>Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom </i>(Bloomsbury, 2017).; Shawna Ross is Assistant Professor of Modern British Literature and Digital Humanities at Texas A&amp;M University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350210609
• ISBN 13: 9781350210608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Ramírez Yolanda Gayol