Full Description
This exciting companion volume explores how intercultural perspectives can inform and transform teacher education and professional development.
The book addresses the practical challenges and opportunities that educators face when responding to diversity in all its forms within learning environments. Engaging with the flexible notion of interculturality, it encourages critical and transparent discussion of its many interpretations. A core principle is that teacher education is never isolated, but is always situated within specific local and global contexts, influenced by factors such as identity, ideology and policy. This Companion serves as a key reference, guiding readers to contextualise, conceptualise and critically evaluate the role of interculturality in teacher preparation.
Covering topics ranging from languaging and decolonising methodologies to digital technologies and artificial intelligence, this book is an indispensable resource for researchers, students and practitioners involved in pre-service training, in-service professional development and self-directed professional learning.
Contents
1. Introduction: Interculturality and teacher preparation Section I: Contextualising intercultural teacher education 2. Intercultural teacher education and training for the diversity of Australian schooling 3. Intercultural education as an answer to racism and discrimination? An analysis of Finnish teacher education curricula 4. Sociohistorically localizing interculturality: Plurilingual engagement with 'foreign culture' in language teacher education in Japan 5. Making sense of and operationalising local knowledge in Chinese Minzu teacher education 6. Turkish in the corridor, French in the classroom. Critical multilingual awareness within intercultural teacher education Section II: Pedagogical approaches and teacher development 7. Navigating dichotomies in teacher education: Interculturality as a zone of reflection for student teachers 8. Integrating and assessing transformative learning in intercultural teacher education 9. Interculturality in practice: Creating spaces for risk-taking in (and beyond) the classroom 10. Fostering reflexivity on diversity in teacher education through classroom observation dialogues 11. Interculturality and simplexity in an Australia-Sweden early childhood teacher student exchange Section III: Foundational theories and critical frameworks 12. A social psychology approach to intercultural teacher education: Identifying core beliefs and orientations 13. Beyond the essentialist/non-essentialist divide: Revisiting the ethical and methodological terrain in intercultural language teacher education research 14. Intercultural teacher education in/about the Global South(s) 15. Making space for indigenous voices in French-speaking schools: Decolonizing teachers' education in the Western Canadian context 16. Intercultural music teacher education as political education 17. Integrating and combining translanguaging and interculturality in/for teacher education Section IV: Innovative methods, resources and assessment 18. Foreign language textbooks as sites of intercultural engagement: Critical perspectives from teacher education 19. Assessing Intercultural Competence (IC) in the Italian school system: Challenges and possibilities for teacher education 20. Developing language teachers' intercultural competence: A critical analysis of the inclusion of Linguistic Landscapes in teacher education programs 21. Dismantling the majority gaze: Student teachers' intercultural experiences with museum collaborations in teacher education 22. AI and interculturality within/for teacher education 23. A critical intercultural vision for teacher education
