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Zusatztext Mazawi! Stack and their contributors have provided an exceptionally valuable resource which reminds us of the inextricable link between instructors' biographies and the educational programs in which students participate. More importantly! Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education offers those of us engaged in creating syllabi! profound narratives and insightful analyses of how our lived experiences! personal investments! and scholarly judgements animate the knowledge and opportunities we wish to provide students. In addition to affording insights into the cultural and political contexts of schooling in some nine countries! this book leads us to consider: What if we were to co-create course syllabi with students whose learning needs! interests and aspirations we aim to satisfy? Informationen zum Autor André Elias Mazawi is Professor of Sociology of Education and Higher Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Affiliate Professor at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research at the University of Malta, Malta. He is also an Associate Researcher with the University of Geneva-based Equipe Dimensions Internationales de l’Education (ERDIE). Michelle Stack is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada. She is also the author of Global University Ranking and the Mediatization of Higher Education, and she is editor of a second upcoming book on university rankings and journal impact factors. Michelle has led several courses and workshops focused on building the capacity of teachers, youth, clinicians, scholars and scholar to engage media to expand policy debates. Her central research interest concerns how people, knowledge and institutions are categorized and the influence of these categorizations on our ability to grapple with “wicked problems” including inequity and climate change.This book looks at the struggles that scholars, policy makers, and educators from a diverse range of countries face when designing and using course syllabi in higher education settings. Zusammenfassung Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education problematizes one of the least researched phenomena in teacher education! the design of course syllabi! using critical and decolonial approaches. This book looks at the struggles that scholars! policy makers! and educators from a diverse range of countries including Australia! Canada! India! Iran! Palestine! Qatar! Saudi Arabia! the USA! and Zambia face as they design course syllabi in higher education settings. The chapter authors argue that course syllabi are political constructions! representing intense sites of struggles over visions of teacher education and visions of society. As such! they are deeply immersed in what Walter Mignolo calls the "geopolitics of knowledge". Authors also show how syllabi have become akin to contractual documents that define relations between instructors and students Based on a set of empirically grounded studies that are compared and contrasted! the chapters offer a clearer picture of how course syllabi function within distinct socio-political! economic! and historical contexts of practice and teacher education. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education: Bodies of Knowledge and Their Discontents, André Elias Mazawi and Michelle Stack Part I Geopolitics of Knowledge 2. The Geopolitics of Knowledge and “the Abyssal Line”: Mapping Teacher Education Syllabi in Canada, Lynette Shultz, Maren Elfert, and Carrie Karsgaard 3. Comparing Course Syllabi from A to Z: Examining the Contexts, Contents, and Concerns for Social Foundations of Education in Australia and Zambia, Matthew A.M. Thomas, Janet Serenje-Chipindi, and Ferdinand Mwaka Chipindi 4. Islamization and Indigenization of Faculties of Ed...
