Teacher Educators for Just and Equitable Education: International Comparisons and Mutual Dilemmas

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This working roundtable brings together teacher educators from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S. who are investigating: What should teacher educators know and be able to do before they are equipped to prepare quality teachers in/for a world characterized by increasing diversity, economic disparity and inequities, and intolerance? Their “stories from around the globe” will serve to ignite a cross-national discussion among session participants about the “disciplined and diverse scholarship” necessary to drive the rigorous research, quality programs and relevant curriculum needed to ensure that those who teach teachers are themselves prepared as social justice educators.

Sub Unit

• World Education Research Association

Chair

• A. Lin Goodwin, The University of Hong Kong

Papers

• Understanding Diversity for Equity Within the Teacher Educator Profession: An Australian Perspective - Simone Jane White, Queensland University of Technology

• Literacy Teacher Educators Teaching for a Just and Equitable Education - Clare Kosnik, University of Toronto/OISE; Clive M. Beck, OISE/University of Toronto

• Teacher Educators, Problematic Discourses, and Equity in Education: The Example of Pasifika Peoples, New Zealand - Tanya L.M. Samu, University of Auckland

• Social Justice Teacher Educators: What Kind of Knowing Is Needed? - A. Lin Goodwin, The University of Hong Kong; Kelsey Darity, Teachers College, Columbia University