Inequality and Teacher Education

An International Perspective

Gajendra K. Verma

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000367126
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

First published in 1993, this book attempts to provide a basic but challenging and rigorous introduction to the issues of inequality in teacher education affecting many of today's societies. Education systems around the world, in common with much else, are undergoing radical change. In such times there are the almost inevitable casualties, in this case the fate of multicultural, multiracial, antiracist education. The authors argue that there is a need for teacher education to be responsive to the needs of a culturally and socially diverse society. It has become obvious that in spite of the vast amount of effort given to it over the last few decades, very little real progress has been made. By highlighting examples of good practices, this book demonstrates how they can be maintained and enhanced.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• Foreword
• Chapter 1 Teacher Education and Inequality
• Chapter 2 Educating Teachers to Combat Inequality
• Chapter 3 Global Apartheid: Disadvantage and Inequality
• Chapter 4 The Residuals of Apartheid: Impediments to Teacher Development in South Africa
• Chapter 5 The Multicultural Preparation of US Teachers: Some Hard Truths
• Chapter 6 Beyond Tokenism: Multiculturalism and Teacher Education in Australia
• Chapter 7 The Struggle for Change: Teacher Education in Canada
• Chapter 8 Social Justice and Teacher Education in the UK
• Chapter 9 Access to Teacher Training and Employment
• Chapter 10 The Lost Opportunity? The Relative Failure of British Teacher Education in Tackling the Inequality of Schooling
• Chapter 11 Multicultural Education and Dutch Primary School Teacher Training Institutes
• Chapter 12 Interculturalism and Dutch Teacher Education
• Chapter 13 Teachers and the Contradictions of Culturalism
• Chapter 14 Teaching about Equality, Inequality and Cultural Diversity in Australian and Pacific Contexts
• Chapter 15 Knowing Ourselves: Practising a Pluralist Epistemology in Teacher Education
• Chapter 16 Teacher Training and Social Justice: Early Attempts to Develop the Teacher-Democrat
• Notes on Contributors
• Index