Communicating Social Justice in Teacher Education - 9780367477530

Taylor & Francis

Communicating Social Justice in Teacher EducationInsights from a Critical Classroom Ethnography\nAuthor(s): Aubrey Huber\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367477530, 978-0367477530\nSynopsis\nEvolving out of ethnographic fieldwork, this text examines how ideas of social justice are articulated and communicated by pre-service teachers and graduate teaching assistants in the US.\n\nBy positing the concept of \""help\"" as a central tenet of social justice within teacher education, this volume offers a unique performative analysis of how the concept is communicatively constituted in teacher education and training. Using a social justice framework, the book examines the ways in which new teachers contend with their identities as educators, and demonstrates how these communicative performances influence pre-service and new teachers perceptions of their role, as well as their responsibility to engage with social justice a.