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Literacy Teacher Educators

Preparing Teachers for a Changing World

  • This edited text describes in detail the work of literacy/English teacher educators from four countries.
  • It includes description of their practices and reasons for their pedagogical choices.
  • Each chapter provides a sense of how the teacher educators facing the challenges of preparing student teachers for the 21st century.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
    1. Introduction

      • Peter Williamson
      Pages 1-4
  2. Current Issues Facing Literacy Teacher Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. Literacy Education and Gender

      • David Booth
      Pages 21-34
    3. Walking the Talk

      • Mary Gene Saudelli, Jennifer Rowsell
      Pages 35-47
  3. Literacy Teacher Educators’ Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
    2. Critical Inquiry Into Literacy Teacher Education

      • María Paula Ghiso, Tamara Spencer, Lan Ngo, Gerald Campano
      Pages 51-64
    3. Leading Literacies

      • Karen Dooley, Beryl Exley, Barbara Comber
      Pages 65-78
    4. Using Our Research to Reframe Our Literacy Courses

      • Clare Kosnik, Lydia Menna
      Pages 161-174
    5. Multiliteracies

      • Maureen Walsh, Cal Durrant
      Pages 175-187
  4. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
    2. The Shifting Landscape of Literacy Teacher Education

      • Clare Kosnik, Jennifer Rowsell, Rob Simon
      Pages 191-203
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 205-206

About this book

Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World brings together the perspectives of 26 literacy/English teacher educators from four countries: Canada, U.S., UK, and Australia. In this unique text the contributors, of whom many are renowned experts in critical literacy and multiliteracies, provide readers with an overview of trends in literacy/English teacher education. The chapters begin with authors’ personal stories and current research, giving readers insight into the personal and professional worlds of the contributors. Included in each chapter is a rich description of approaches to literacy instruction in teacher education. These exemplary teacher educators show in concrete detail how they are addressing our evolving understanding of literacy . This timely text, written in a highly engaging style, will be of value to teacher educators throughout the world. I have never read anything quite like this book. It contains explicit representations of the conceptual frames and work of distinguished literacy teacher educators at various stages in their careers, accounts that provide a strong counter-narrative to the mainstream discourse in policy and education, that fully embrace the uncertainties and complexities of practice." From the Forward by Susan L. Lytle, Professor Emerita of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Toronto, Canada

    Clare Kosnik, Rob Simon, Clive Beck

  • Brock University, Canada

    Jennifer Rowsell

  • University of San Francisco, USA

    Peter Williamson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Literacy Teacher Educators

  • Book Subtitle: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World

  • Editors: Clare Kosnik, Jennifer Rowsell, Peter Williamson, Rob Simon, Clive Beck

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-200-6

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-200-6Published: 19 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 206

  • Topics: Education, general

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