Language Teacher Education Beyond Borders

<b>This volume looks at the preparation of future critical language teachers in the face of an increasingly multilingual and transcultural contemporary world.</b> This is seen through the lens of the collapse of Nation-State borders that crumble in the face of migration and the intense flow of languages that comes with it. It brings together international research that problematizes theorizes re-positions and re-conceptualizes myriad structural systemic ideological political and pedagogical issues that intersect with the possibilities and impossibilities of the development of language teachers' agency.<br/> <br/> The volume examines the needs of linguistically diverse student populations and considers the socio-cultural and socio-political barriers that interfere with the exercise of teacher agency for social justice in language classrooms. It offers a theoretical and empirical overview of how language teacher education has addressed multilingualism and transculturalism in critical approaches in many complex countries in their diversity and/or postcolonial history including Brazil Qazaqstan Scotland and Thailand.