Internationalizing Teacher Education for Social Justice

A volume in Research for Social Justice: Personal~Passionate~Participatory Inquiry(Sponsored by AERA Qualitative Research SIG and International Studies SIG)Series Editors Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University and JoAnn Phillion, Purdue UniversityIn Internationalizing Teacher Education for Social Justice: Theory, Research, and Practice, editors SunitiSharma, JoAnn Phillion, Jubin Rahatzad, and Hannah L. Sasser present a collection of personal, passionate,and participatory global perspectives of teacher educators on internationalizing teacher education for socialjustice. The reader will encounter each author's personal and professional journey into global classrooms forinternationalizing teacher education and supporting future teachers in developing competencies necessary foraddressing the academic needs of diverse K-12 classrooms. This collection provides a broad, critical, andinterpretive overview of shifts in U.S. and global perspectives to offer transformative frameworks andstrategies on preparing K-12 teachers to meet the complex demands for skills in the twenty-first century. Theglobal tenor of this book, framed by theory, research, and practice spanning several countries provides a timely contribution to internationalizingteacher education for social justice in the twenty-first century. The authors' dedication to preparing teachers who have knowledge of world culturesand global issues, combined with a deep commitment to social justice for promoting equity in education, informs each chapter. The authors take up theinternationalization of teacher education for social justice as both an opportunity and a challenge, transcending rhetoric to meaningful action, situatingtheir global understanding to inform readers of critical engagement with, and examination of, theory, research, and practice for effecting social andeducational change.