Appropriating the Discourse of Social Justice in Teacher Educ... - 9781607097440

Appropriating the Discourse of Social Justice in Teacher EducationAuthor(s): Marta P. Baltodano\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781607097440, 978-1607097440\nSynopsis\nIn recent years there have been strong movements of reforms in teacher education. The most common are intended to adjust teacher preparation to the standardization demands of NCLB, Race to the Top, and CAEP to make teacher education more accountable. These reformscarried out in the name of excellence, accountability, diversity, and inclusionconstitute subliminal efforts to appropriate the possibilities for real transformation in teacher education. However, in spite of the pervasive rhetoric to identify diversity and social justice with the accountability and standardization movement, there are endeavors to create transformations in teacher preparation that are authentic. These deliberate changes seek to counteract the neoliberal vision.