The five authors of this article designed a multicase study to follow recent graduates of an
elementary preservice teacher education program into their beginning teaching placements …

To better prepare teacher candidates to teach for social justice, teacher educators need to
know students' understandings of social justice embedded in their personal histories and …

Frustrated by the challenge of opening teacher education students to a genuine
understanding of the social justice concepts vital for creating an equitable learning …

Background/Context Responding to the challenges of the demographic imperative and calls
for greater program coherence, social justice teacher education programs aim to integrate …

Pre-service teachers may leave their graduate programs with strong social justice leanings,
yet most begin teaching struggling to integrate their visions into a context constrained by …

In this chapter, we discuss the goals and practices that have been commonly associated
with preservice teacher education programs that emphasize the preparation of teachers who …

Teacher preparation programs are vital to facilitating the development of teacher candidates
who have the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that align with a social justice approach to …

The Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) has a long, distinguished record of publishing
articles focusing on multiple aspects of “learning to teach for social justice, social change …

Teacher education focused on social justice does not exist in a vacuum. Its theory and
practice reside in a global context that can exert considerable influence on its formulation …

For the past twenty years (eighteen in Philadelphia and the last two in Boston), I have
worked with new and experienced teachers in urban teacher education programs …