Navigating Teacher Education in Complex and Uncertain Times b... - 9781350198784

Navigating Teacher Education in Complex and Uncertain TimesConnecting Communities of Practice in a Borderless World\nAuthor(s): Carmen I. Mercado\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350198784, 978-1350198784\nSynopsis\nCarmen I. Mercado draws on four decades of seminal research and theory on how American children, who come from homes where languages other than English are spoken, learn to read and to write in school to reveal aspects of locally-responsive planning and adaptations that should be central to any teacher education program that hopes to serve its unique, local population base responsibly. \n\nMercado uses a range of theoretical lenses particularly those surrounding critical theory, the approach designed to deconstruct power relationships in society, to capture and explain the complexities of the teaching-learning process making visible institutional, social and political influences clear. She.