Developing culturally and historically sensitive teacher education [electronic book] : global lessons from a literacy education program / edited by Peter Smagorinsky, Yolanda Gayol Ramirez and Patricia Rosas Chávez.
Contributor(s): Smagorinsky, Peter [editor]
| Gayol Ramirez, Yolanda [editor] | Rosas Chávez, Patricia [editor].
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BookSeries: Reinventing teacher education.Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: online resource (xxiv, 328 pages) : color illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781350147430 (hardback); 9781350147454 (e-book) ; 9781350147461 (e-book).Subject(s): Teachers -- Training of | Culturally relevant pedagogy | Literacy programs -- Mexico | DDC classification: 370.711 Online resources: e-Book | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| e-BOOK | MTU Bishopstown Library eBook | 370.711 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: reinventing teacher education for the Mexican context -- Literacy to soar: the dream of a new Mexico -- Innovation from the bottom up: from street reading to a graduate degree program in literacy studies -- Mexico: reading our times -- International cooperation in the development of local teacher education programs -- Some linguistic considerations for literacy Studies -- Literacy and everyday life -- The challenge of literacy and inclusion -- How the mind engages in literacy development and practice -- How technology contributes to literacy education and practice -- Building a STEM infrastructure for Mexico's future needs -- Action research in critical literacy initiatives --Theoretical and methodological perspectives for researching literacy practices -- Literacy as a human right in Mexican education.
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Electronic reproduction.: Bloomsbury Collections. Mode of access: World Wide Web.