Beyond the Classroom Walls - Teaching in Challenging Social Contexts

This book offers richly descriptive narratives and research-based ethnographic insights into the lived experiences of teachers and school administrators in some of the world's most challenging teaching and learning contexts. In doing so, it supports educators to develop their critical intercultural awareness.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: A Framework for Understanding Teaching in a Complex, Heterogeneous World
Chapter 2: Seeing Beyond the Stories
Chapter 3: A Modicum of Opportunity in the Haze of the Brickfields
Chapter 4: Beacons of Hope Twenty Years after Genocide
Chapter 5: Refugee Camp Schools beneath a Setting Sun
Chapter 6: Looking Back
Epilogue
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Jerome Cranston (he/him) is a critical race scholar whose life's work has focused on identifying societal inequities in order to find solutions that are more racially just for those often denied justice. Cranston holds a Ph.D. (Manitoba), M.Ed. (Lethbridge), B.Ed. & B.Sc. (Alberta), and is a much sought after presenter, consultant and educator/educational leader.

Summary

This book offers richly descriptive narratives and research-based ethnographic insights into the lived experiences of teachers and school administrators in some of the world’s most challenging teaching and learning contexts. In doing so, it supports educators to develop their critical intercultural awareness.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Cranston, Cranston Jerome
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781498565059
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6505-9
• No. of pages: 130
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; EDUCATION / Inclusive Education, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Teaching skills and techniques, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching skills & techniques, Educational strategies and policy: inclusion, Inclusive education / mainstreaming, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies