Toward Just and Equitable Teacher Preparation: A Global Conversation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together learning scholars, practitioners, and policy influencers of teacher preparation from across the globe in conversation about innovative practices that are advancing equity in their local and national contexts. Scholars from Finland, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, and the United States will highlight research, practices, and policies in their contexts that seek to repair historic and systemic harm done in educational spaces in their nations and prepare future ready teachers who are equipped to teach all students. Attendees will also be able to engage in open dialogue with the panelists to consider ways that lessons learned can be taken and used in their home contexts.

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• Maria E. Hyler, Learning Policy Institute

Papers

• Transforming Teacher Education to Repair Educational Inequality - Maria A. Flores, University of Minho

• Building a Future-ready and Justice-oriented Teacher Education Faculty: Transformative Practices in Singapore - Ee Ling Low, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University

• Justice, Equity and Quality as Leading Principles in Finnish Teacher Education - Hannele M. Niemi, University of Helsinki

• Preparing Teachers of Pacific Learners in Aotearoa New Zealand: When Research Remedies, Restores and Renews - Tanya L.M. Samu, University of Auckland; Bronwen Cowie, University of Waikato

Discussants

• Linda Darling-Hammond, Learning Policy Institute

• A. Lin Goodwin, Boston College