Inequality and Teacher Education - An International Perspective

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures Foreword 1. Teacher Education and Inequality 2. Educating Teachers to Combat Inequality 3. Global Apartheid: Disadvantage and Inequality 4. The Residuals of Apartheid: Impediments to Teacher Development in South Africa 5. The Multicultural Preparation of US Teachers: Some Hard Truths 6. Beyond Tokenism: Multiculturalism and Teacher Education in Australia 7. The Struggle for Change: Teacher Education in Canada 8. Social Justice and Teacher Education in the UK 9. Access to Teacher Training and Employment 10. The Lost Opportunity? The Relative Failure of British Teacher Education in Tackling the Inequality of Schooling 11. Multicultural Education and the Dutch Primary School Teacher Training Institutes 12. Interculturalism and Dutch Teacher Education 13. Teachers and the Contradictions of Culturalism 14. Teaching about Equality, Inequality and Cultural Diversity in Australian and Pacific Contexts 15. Knowing Ourselves: Practising a Pluralist Epistemology in Teacher Education 16. Teacher Training and Social Justice: Early Attempts to Develop the Teacher-Democrat Notes on Contributors Index

About the author

Gajendra K. Verma

Summary

First published in 1993, this book attempts to provide a basic but challenging and rigorous introduction to the issues of inequality in teacher education affecting many of today’s societies.

Product details

• Authors: Gajendra K. Verma, Gajendra K. (University of Manchester Verma
• Assisted by: Gajendra K. Verma (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780367686734
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68673-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Reference, teacher training, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Social Science, EDUCATION / Teaching / General