Purpose Rural education research has historically been cast in a deficit lens, with rural
places characterized by their problems or shortcomings, as if the way of understanding rural …

The first year of teaching has and continues to be fraught with challenges for early educators
in public school contexts across the United States. A persistent problem that has been …

This Element explores ways to promote critical literacy in teacher education. First, the
authors define critical literacy in the context of teacher education through established …

Reports of educators' deficit beliefs about culturally and linguistically diverse students and
students with low socioeconomic status abound in the literature. Not surprisingly, deficit …

Most practitioners and scholars agree that critical and reflective early childhood and
elementary teachers are foundational for children's holistic growth and development. Yet …

Discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic re-exposed racist tropes about Asian Americans,
with verbal and physical attacks on people of AAPI heritage. There is much to learn about …

This chapter overviews a pilot research study intended to document pre-service elementary
education students' perspectives concerning a course unit on the funds of knowledge …

The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to explore the relationship between
teachers' knowledge of dyslexia and their confidence in teaching those with dyslexia, as …

This study employed design-based research to explore the efficacy of professional learning
materials and approaches in developing social justice advocacy with rural elementary …

In Kazakhstan, the rich diversity of local knowledge seems to be ignored by policymakers
who favor discourses of globalization and internationalization that disempower local …