Redefining Teaching Competence through Immersive Programs

Abstract

Part I: Re-conceptualizing teacher competence: Challenging inequity through collaboration and learning within diverse communities -- 1.Cultural/linguistic immersion in teacher preparation for emergent bilingual learners: Defining a new space for asset-based pedagogies (Elizabeth Smolcic and Daniela Martin) -- 2.“Nested Interculturality”: Dispositions and Practices for Navigating Tensions in Immersion Experience (Netta Avineri) -- 3. Decolonizing teacher education in immersion contexts: Working with space, place and boundaries (Fran Martin and Fatima Pirbhai-Illich) -- 4. Ontario’s K- 12 International Education Strategy: Policy impacts on teacher education for international, intercultural and multilingual sensibilities (Roopa Desai Trilokekar and Amira El Masri) -- Part II: Teaching as moral imagination: Bridging student-teacher gaps through immersive education -- 5. Language and (inter)cultural learning: Supporting language teacher candidates’ development of interculturality during study abroad (Michelle L. Pasterick) -- 6.“Maybe What We’ve Done Here in Antigua is Just the Thing to Combat Global Inequity”: Developing Teachers for Linguistically Diverse Classrooms through Study Abroad (Enrique David Degollado, Deborah Palmer, Luis Urietta, Jr., Julia Menard-Warwick, Eric Ruiz Bybee and Shannon Kehoe) -- 7. Teachers Navigating Cultural and Linguistic Differences: Building Empathy through Participation in Immersive Experience (Courtney Wood and Adam Virzi) -- 8. Decolonizing identities of teachers of color through study abroad: Dreaming beyond assumptions, toward embracing transnational ways of knowing (Sue Kasun, Ethan Tinh Trinh, and Brittney Caldwell) -- Part III: New Directions: Expanding the Center of Immersive Teacher Education -- 9. Promoting Sustainability Literacy through Immersion Abroad Experiences for Teachers (John Katunich) -- 10. Immersion in ‘Othered’ Spaces for Teacher Preparation: Encountering Different Knowledges (Pauli Badenhorst) -- 11.Voices Together: Perspectives from the Host and Sojourner Communities (Eleanor Leggett Sweeney, Sharon Smith Childs, Ana Loja, and Yolanda Loja). .