TY - BOOK ID - 136319666 TI - Reconceptualizing Teacher Education : A Canadian Contribution to a Global Challenge AU - Kane, Ruth AU - Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas AU - Pinar, William F. AU - Phelan, Anne M. PY - 2020 SN - 0776628666 0776628658 9780776628677 0776628674 9780776628653 9780776628660 9780776628646 077662864X 9780776628851 0776628852 0776631144 0776631136 PB - [Ottawa, Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press, DB - UniCat KW - Community development KW - Canada. KW - Community. KW - Contemporary society. KW - Diversity. KW - Marginalization. KW - Practice. KW - Theory. KW - Culturally relevant pedagogy KW - Multicultural education. KW - Teachers KW - Study and teaching. KW - Training of. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136319666 AB - "In this collection, Canadian scholars articulate a response to their collective concerns about the impact of global policy on teacher education, provoking a far-reaching dialogue about teacher education in and for our times. The first two decades of the new millennium have witnessed unprecedented appraisal, analysis, and educational policy formulations related to teaching (K–12) across the Western world. In turn, teacher education has been greatly impacted, as governments around the world see the reform and management of teacher education as a key component in restructuring education toward greater economic competitiveness. The result has been an unwarranted and undesirable level of standardization. It is vital to the future of teacher education, and concomitantly public education, that we imagine alternatives to the homogenization of the educational experience that globalizing policies install. What is needed are vocabularies that enable educators and teacher educators to discern and articulate educational purposes beyond capital and which focus on the kinds of educational experiences that can help prepare the young to lead good and worthwhile lives. Using lessons learned from the Canadian context, the authors identify and investigate the importance of initial and continuing professional education that fosters teachers’ intellectual freedom and study; advances an informed and critical appreciation of civic particularity and historical circumstance; and cultivates ethical (i.e., pedagogical) engagement with ideas and histories—teachers’ own and their students—as crucial themes of teacher education globally."-- ER -