Mindful And Relational Approaches To Social Justice Equity And Diversity In Teacher Education

Author : Julian Kitchen,Karen Ragoonaden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781498598927

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Mindful and Relational Approaches to Social Justice, Equity, and Diversity in Teacher Education by Julian Kitchen,Karen Ragoonaden Pdf

As teaching is socially, culturally, and politically constructed, it is important that teacher educators committed to social justice attempt to create secure environment where all voices are heard and teacher candidates can inquire into personally and socially challenging topics within a safe and caring classroom culture. Relationships of trust are fundamental to teaching about social justice and to being receptive as learners in such classes. Mindfulness on the part of teacher educators and teacher candidates can go a long way in fostering respect, openness and acceptance in such classes. Together they can lead to teacher educators and candidates thinking deeply about themselves, schools and schooling as they move towards a vision of a more equitable and just society. The teacher educators who have contributed to this volume recognize the challenges of balancing respect for their students with the call to social justice. Their accounts and critical reflections convey how relational and mindful approaches might offer positive avenues to self and shared exploration by teacher candidates and teacher educators alike. Several chapters attend to the challenges for educators as they encounter culturally and linguistically diverse contexts. Others attend to these issues within the complexity of diverse university classrooms in order to guide teacher candidates towards dispositions and practices that help foster inclusion and engage diverse learners and communities. Together, these chapters offer thoughtful approaches to living alongside aspiring teachers as they develop deeper understanding of the concepts of race and diversity, and inclusive approaches to teaching and learning.

Author : Julian Kitchen,Karen Ragoonaden
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1498598919

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Mindful and Relational Teacher Approaches to Social Justice in Teacher Education by Julian Kitchen,Karen Ragoonaden Pdf

This volume explores how social justice is critical to making education accessible and meaningful to all. Mindfulness and relational teacher education offer effective ways to engage aspiring teachers in preparing youth for a diverse and changing world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004505216

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Self-Study and Diversity III by Anonim Pdf

This book is about the self-study of teacher education practices at a time when inclusion and diversity are being questioned. Authors of various backgrounds and identities draw on their own experiences to examine the challenges of preparing teachers.

Author : Oren Ergas,Jason K Ritter
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839822629

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Exploring Self toward expanding Teaching, Teacher Education and Practitioner Research by Oren Ergas,Jason K Ritter Pdf

Against the backdrop of a pull toward external standards and accountability, this collection of chapters re-grounds us in the importance of bringing the 'self' to the foreground of the discourse of teaching, teacher education and practitioner research.

Author : Natalie Keefer,Tori K. Flint
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781666908008

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Mindful Social Studies by Natalie Keefer,Tori K. Flint Pdf

Mindful Social Studies: Frameworks for Social Emotional Learning and Critically Engaged Citizens situates the field of social studies education as uniquely poised to integrate anti-racist, equity, and asset-based pedagogies with contemplative, mindfulness-based strategies to promote the knowledge, skills, and dispositions students need to be effective citizens. Students’ Social Emotional Learning (SEL) hinges upon their experience(s) engaging in authentic learning that strengthens cognitive skills, including critical thinking, self-awareness, reflection, compassion, empathy, and perspective taking. In this volume, the co-editors have curated reflective K-16 practitioner-style, research-focused, and theory-based chapters that explore social justice-orientated contemplative pedagogies, as well as mindfulness-related frameworks and strategies for teaching social studies and the social and behavioral sciences. In this book, chapter authors explore ways of cultivating specific mindfulness-related social studies dispositions and transformative rationales and approaches for critical mindfulness and SEL based on compelling arguments for meeting the needs of students, families, and educators in a dynamic and increasingly diverse society.

Author : Cheryl J. Craig,Laura Turchi,Denise M. McDonald
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030566746

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Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Teacher Education by Cheryl J. Craig,Laura Turchi,Denise M. McDonald Pdf

This book focuses on the impact of sustained and evolving collaborations, showcasing research and scholarship in a faculty group—consisting of 28 professors from five regional universities—meeting and supporting each other since 2002. Originally an innovation introduced by Cheryl J. Craig and funded by a reform movement, the Faculty Academy continues to flourish in the fourth largest city in America long after the reform initiative abandoned its charge. Contributors to this volume represent all stages of careers, include all races and genders, and write from a multiplicity of disciplinary stances (literacy, mathematics, science, social education, multiculturalism, English as a Second Language, accountability, etc.). In addition to fascinatingly diverse perspectives on teacher education, the authors also investigate issues related to career trajectories—including experiences of vulnerability. The volume illuminates how the Faculty Academy works as a dynamic academic and social bond: not only as a glue that binds members in community, but also in rigorous intellectual commitments that fuel their collective knowing and advance their careers while providing leadership, mentorship, and modelling in up-close and timely ways.

Author : Tru Leverette
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781793635419

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The Mindful Classroom by Tru Leverette Pdf

The Mindful Classroom: Constructive Conversations on Race, Identity, and Justice helps teachers and discussion facilitators practice and teach mindfulness and movement techniques that can deeply enhance conversations about race, identity, and social justice, furthering social justice efforts at their most basic stage—person to person—from the face-to-face or online classroom to the community at large. Mindfulness and movement practices can help us prepare for and engage in difficult conversations, and the more conscious we become of our emotional, mental, and physical landscape, the more we are able to engage proactively rather than reactively, consciously rather than automatically. We become able to act (or not act), rather than react in situations with others. The topics of race and social justice are timely, and they are triggers. Productive engagement with these topics demands we remain mindful of how we may be triggered and how we may be triggering others; it demands we pay attention to ourselves at a fundamental level, and it demands that we grant such attention to others.

Author : Cheryl J. Craig,Denise M. McDonald,Gayle A. Curtis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031119026

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Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education by Cheryl J. Craig,Denise M. McDonald,Gayle A. Curtis Pdf

This book explores the concept of the "best-loved self" in teaching and teacher education, asserting that the best-loved self is foundational to the development of teacher identity, growth in context, and learning in community. Drawing on the work of Joseph Schwab, who was the first to name the "best-loved self," the editors and their contributors extend this knowledge further through the collaboration of their group of teacher educators, known as the Faculty Academy, who have been involved in examining teacher education for over two decades.

Author : Julian Kitchen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811624988

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Writing as a Method for the Self-Study of Practice by Julian Kitchen Pdf

This book focuses on the writing process in the self-study of teaching and teacher education practices. It addresses writing as an area in which teacher educators can develop their skills and represents how to write in ways that are compatible with self-study's orientations towards the inquiry, both personal and on practice. The book examines effective self-study writing with chapters written by experienced self-study practitioners. In addition to considering elements of writing as a method for the self-study of practice, it delves into the cognitive processes of real writers making explicit their writing practices. Practical suggestions are connected to the lived experiences of self-study practitioners making sense of their field through the process of writing. This book will be of interest to doctoral and novice self-study writers, and experienced authors seeking to develop their practice. It demonstrates that writing as a method of inquiry in self-study and beyond can be learned, modeled and taught.

Author : Nicole Bauer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781666956573

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Resilience and Resistance through Contemplative Practice by Nicole Bauer Pdf

Burnout, imposter syndrome, changes in higher education, issues of free speech, structural inequality—the challenges facing academics today are daunting and overwhelming. How do we balance all of our responsibilities and goals without becoming exhausted? How do scholars decide if activism is right for them, and if so, what form should it take? There is, fortunately, great wisdom, solace, and practical advice for the modern academic in ancient wisdom traditions, indigenous cultures, and contemplative practices like meditation from around the world. In Resilience and Resitance through Contemplative Practice: Zen and the Anxious Academic, the author argues that contemplative practice is not a substitute for social change or a band-aid for the difficulties academics face, but rather a powerful tool in building resilience and resistance to forces that undermine our well-being. Learn, for example, how Jungian psychology and ancient dream practices can help with academic writing, how the concept of dharma can lead us to discern our vocation and if activism is the right path for us, and how meditation can help us rediscover our innate self-worth in a culture where value is judged by narrow definitions of productivity and achievement. With these tools and insights, we can create positive change in both our inner and outer worlds.

Author : Watson, Sandy White,Austin, Stacie,Bell, Jeremy
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799888505

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Conceptual Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies by Watson, Sandy White,Austin, Stacie,Bell, Jeremy Pdf

The field of curriculum inquiry has grown rapidly over the last four decades resulting in many new forms of curriculum inquiry to be used as tools to answer unique curriculum-related research questions. There are few texts available that include concise descriptions and elements of curriculum inquiry methodologies and directed at enabling researchers to wisely choose a form of curriculum inquiry most appropriate for their study. Conceptual Analyses of Curriculum Inquiry Methodologies presents chapters that are each devoted to a particular form of inquiry, with a conceptual analysis of the methodology, its purpose(s), its utilization, structure, and organization, all written by scholars with firsthand experience with the form of inquiry. These experts also take the liberty of citing examples of published studies that have utilized the methodology, share the types of relevant data collection instruments and forms of data produced, and also share research questions that can be answered via their form of inquiry. Covering topics such as quantitative methods of inquiry, glocalization, and educational criticism, this is an essential text for curriculum designers, doctoral students, doctoral researchers, university faculty, professors, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Tara Ratnam,Elaine Chan,Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889767496

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Social Justice in Teacher Education: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion by Tara Ratnam,Elaine Chan,Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker Pdf

Author : Nana Osei-Kofi,Bradley Boovy,Kali Furman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000351514

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Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education by Nana Osei-Kofi,Bradley Boovy,Kali Furman Pdf

Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education is a book for anyone with an interest in teaching and learning in higher education from a social justice perspective and with a commitment to teaching all students. This text offers a breadth of disciplinary perspectives on how to center difference, power, and systemic oppression in pedagogical practice, arguing that these elements are essential to knowledge formation and to teaching. Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education is structured as an ongoing conversation among educators who believe that teaching from a social justice perspective is about much more than the type of readings and assignments found on course syllabi. Drawing on the broadest possible definition of curriculum transformation, the volume demonstrates that social justice education is about both educators’ social locations and about course content. It is also about knowing students and teaching beyond the traditional classroom to meaningfully include local communities, social movements, archives, and colleagues in student and academic affairs. Premised on the notion that continuous learning and growth is critical to educators with deep commitments to fostering critical consciousness through their teaching, Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education offers interdisciplinary and innovative collaborative approaches to curriculum transformation that build on and extend existing scholarship on social justice education. Newly committed and established social justice pedagogues share their experiences taking up the many difficult questions pertaining to what it means for all of us to participate in shaping a more just, shared future.

Author : Maurianne Adams,Lee Anne Bell,Pat Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135928490

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Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice by Maurianne Adams,Lee Anne Bell,Pat Griffin Pdf

For nearly a decade, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations and curricular frameworks for social justice teaching practice. This thoroughly revised second edition continues to provide teachers and facilitators with an accessible pedagogical approach to issues of oppression in classrooms. Building on the groundswell of interest in social justice education, the second edition offers coverage of current issues and controversies while preserving the hands-on format and inclusive content of the original. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice presents a well-constructed foundation for engaging the complex and often daunting problems of discrimination and inequality in American society. This book includes a CD-ROM with extensive appendices for participant handouts and facilitator preparation.

Author : Maurianne Adams,Lee Anne Bell,Pat Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135928506

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Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice by Maurianne Adams,Lee Anne Bell,Pat Griffin Pdf

For nearly a decade, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice has been the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations and curricular frameworks for social justice teaching practice. This thoroughly revised second edition continues to provide teachers and facilitators with an accessible pedagogical approach to issues of oppression in classrooms. Building on the groundswell of interest in social justice education, the second edition offers coverage of current issues and controversies while preserving the hands-on format and inclusive content of the original. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice presents a well-constructed foundation for engaging the complex and often daunting problems of discrimination and inequality in American society. This book includes a CD-ROM with extensive appendices for participant handouts and facilitator preparation.