Introduction : educator preparation and the rhetoric of ́with liberty and justice for alĺ / Eva Zygmunt and Patricia Clark -- I am my community : privileging funds of knowledge and community cultural wealth / Wilisha Scaife and Eva Zygmunt -- Community mentoring : seeking cultural dexterity through a process oriented approach to teaching / Candance Doerr-Stevens, Joelle Worm, and Kelly R. Allen -- Whose voices matter? Intentionality and shared vision within authentic community-university partnerships / April L. Mustian, Jennifer O’Malley, Gynger Garcia, Carlos Millan, and Maria Luisa Zamudio -- Shared power in teacher preparation : university, school, and community / Nadine McHenry, Janet Baldwin, Hilda Campbell, Anonymous Contributor, Essence Allen-Presley, Bretton Alvare, and Taylor Borgstrom -- Designing a community engagement strategy to serve historically marginalized urban youth in Australia / Jo Lampert, Eric Dommers, Jaime de Loma-Osorio Ricon, and Stevie Lebhers-Browne -- The community as textbook : preparing community-engaged teachers / Heather K. Olson Beal, Lauren E. Burrow, Linda Autrey, Crystal Hicks, and Amber Teal -- ́We still have work to do:́ community-engaged experiences and impact in an urban social justice program / Tasha Austin, Kisha Porcher, Mary Curran, Jaime DePaola, Jessica Pelaez, and Lauren Raffaelli -- Successes and challenges in becoming an equity educator : candidate perspectives / Kristin Cipollone, Kaylie Johnston, Hailey Maupin, Kylie Kaminski, and Jacob Layton -- Conclusion : thoughts on hope and healing / Eva Zygmunt.
Summary:
Discover how and why community-engaged teacher preparation is a powerful and vital approach to address an educational system that is historically deficient, discriminatory, and decidedly inequitable. In this edited volume, the authors argue that past practice is inadequate and issue a mandate for a new approach to educator preparation. Articulating a clear definition of community-engaged teacher preparation, they focus on national and international initiatives that have been sustained over time and are having a direct impact on student learning. Chapters are written by school, university, and community partners who speak to the innovation, creativity, commitment, and persistence required to reinvent teacher preparation. They also underscore the complexity of this work, the humility necessary to reflect and reconsider, and the true spirit of authentic solidarity among university, school, and community partners required to seek and secure equity for children in schools. Book Features: Provides a critical examination of structural inequity in education and ways to address it through community-engaged teacher preparation; Describes a teacher preparation model that is enacted in solidarity with members of historically marginalized populations; Offers clear guidance on what is meant by culturally relevant and culturally sustaining pedagogies with examples of how these frameworks are being operationalized; Explores the obstacles and opportunities involved in the implementation process.
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