A Reader of Narrative and Critical Lenses on Intercultural Teaching and Learning(HC)

<p>A volume in Research for Social Justice: Personal~Passionate~Participatory</p><p>It has become increasingly critical for both novice and experienced educators to bring to their diverse classrooms a set of<br />dispositions skills and experiences that will enhance learning for all students especially pupils from diverse cultural and<br />language backgrounds. Intercultural teaching experiences offer opportunities for teachers and student teachers to learn<br />about cultures and cultures of schooling via first?hand interactions. In this way intercultural teaching enables educators to<br />intertwine the personal political cultural social theoretical and practical as a means of making important changes in school and classroom life.<br />A Reader on Narrative and Critical Lenses of Intercultural Teaching and Learning offers readers a set of chapters that highlights the work of researchers<br />educators and teacher educators that displays new possibilities for ongoing teacher development and positive social and educational changes. This book<br />engages in critical and narrative exploration of intercultural teaching intercultural competence and the relationship between the work of educators in<br />different countries and teaching for diversity. This text also accounts for international intra?cultural and intercultural teaching beyond early field experiences<br />and student teaching programs by including the viewpoints of educators with these experiences. Significantly this book enhances the current dialogue on<br />intercultural teaching and on intercultural competence with first?hand narrative accounts of life teaching and research in intercultural professional settings<br />in order to bring to light intricate understandings of this form of educator professional development. In addition this text critically unpacks aspects of<br />intercultural teacher development and programs supporting such endeavors as they explicitly enhance educators’ capacities for personal passionate and<br />participatory teaching and inquiry.</p>