Communicating Social Justice in Teacher Education: Insights from a Critical Classroom Ethnography

This book explores how pre-service teachers and graduate teaching assistants in the US communicate ideas of social justice through the concept of help. It offers a performative analysis of how this concept is constituted in teacher education and training,and how it influences perceptions of teachers' roles and responsibilities.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 130 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Evolving from ethnographic fieldwork, this comprehensive text delves into the intricate ways in which pre-service teachers and graduate teaching assistants in the United States articulate and convey notions of social justice. By centering the concept of help as a fundamental pillar of social justice within teacher education, this volume presents a distinctive performative analysis of how the concept is linguistically constructed within the realm of teacher education and training. Employing a social justice framework, the book explores the ways in which new teachers grapple with their identities as educators, shedding light on how these communicative performances shape pre-service and new teachers' perceptions of their roles and responsibilities in the classroom. This text holds immense value for researchers, academics, and educators in the field of teacher education, critical communication studies, and the broader sociology of education. Those with a particular interest in teacher training, mentoring, and social justice in the classroom will find this book particularly insightful and valuable.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032116914