Issues in Teacher Education articles from September 2011

Issues in Teacher Education archives from September 2011

Introduction.
September 22, 2011... Dear Readers, As we start our third year as co-editors of Issues in Teacher Education, we reflect back on past accomplishments and look forward to new ventures. Our accomplishments include moving our submission process into an electronic...

Voices of border crossings: learning, teaching, and expanding visions.(Report)
September 22, 2011... Cross-cultural movement is increasingly impacting school environments and classroom practice, mainly as a result of rising and more varied rates of culturally pluralistic populations than previously recorded (Statistics Canada, 2007; United...

Examining the practice of critical reflection for developing pre-service teachers' multicultural competencies: findings from a study abroad program in Honduras.(Report)
September 22, 2011... In response to a critical need in teacher preparation, study abroad programs aimed at developing multicultural competencies in pre-service teachers have proliferated across the United States (Kitsantas, 2004). Multicultural competencies...

Crossing borders without leaving town: the impact of cultural immersion on the perceptions of teacher education candidates.(Report)
September 22, 2011... The racial/ethnic populations in public schools have changed dramatically in recent years and will continue to shift to a majority non-White population (National Center for Education Statistics, 2010). In 2001, 61% of school-aged children in the...

From heads to hearts: digital stories as reflection artifacts of teachers' international experience.(Report)
September 22, 2011... The longest journey {people} must take is the eighteen inches from {their} heads to [their] hearts. Introduction On a humid Houston morning at the end of May, 13 Texas middle and high school teachers boarded a plane bound for China. The...

Crossing borders by "walking around" culture: three ethnographic reflections on teacher preparation.(Report)
September 22, 2011... Introduction We live in a global society and because of recent trends in immigration and other factors, the demographics of the world have changed dramatically. This is especially true (Futrell, Gomez, & Bedden, 2003; Hodgkinson,...

How deep is your commitment? Crossing borders via cultural immersion.(Report)
September 22, 2011... I was introduced to the notion of cultural competency (Sue, Bernier, Durran, Feinberg, Pedersen, Smith, & Vasquez-Nuttal, 1982; Sue & Sue, 1990) early in my graduate training. Since then, guidelines concerning multicultural competency...

Cross-cultural interpretations of curricular contextual crossings.(Report)
September 22, 2011... The North American teaching population continuously fails to reflect student populations, especially school populations located in global and non-dominant communities. Public school students are increasingly likely to be of non-hegemonic...

Benefiting the educator and student alike: effective strategies for supporting the academic language development of English learner (EL) teacher candidates.(Innovative practices)(Report)
September 22, 2011... Introduction The State of California has a particularly diverse demographic and linguistic composition, presenting both challenges and opportunities for teaching and learning in the state's K-12 public educational system. Currently, over 43%...

Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools-Now and in the Future.(Book review)
September 22, 2011... Teaching 2030: What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools-Now and in the Future by Barnett Berry & the TeacherSolutions 2030 Team New York & London: Teachers College Press & Washington, DC: National Education...

Organizing the Curriculum: Perspectives on Teaching the Labor Movement.(Book review)
September 22, 2011... Organizing the Curriculum: Perspectives on Teaching the Labor Movement Edited by Rob Linne, Leigh Benin, & Adrienne Sosin Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers, 2009 Introduction Teaching educators and students about the labor...