Rethinking 21st Century Diversity in Teacher Preparation, K-12 Education, and School Policy: Theory, Research, and Practice

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This book offers educators new understandings of 21st century diversity emerging from contemporary national events within the U.S., global movements, and changes in the world political order that have long-lasting impact on local education and call for rethinking traditional generalizations and empirical prescriptions for inclusivity in teaching and learning. The book expands the literature on teacher preparation and intercultural education by providing the educational community with critical perspectives, theoretical approaches, and research methodologies for educational inquiry responsive to diversity. Driven by changes in classroom diversity this book offers educators, researchers and policy makers a language for articulating complex differences in educational reform, policy and practice. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix 21st Century Diversity, Educational Equity, and Transformative Change (Suniti Sharma, Althier M. Lazar)....Pages 1-17 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Not Everyone Gets a Seat at the Table!: Responding to the Language Games of Diversity (Jonathan T. Torres, Nicole C. Ferry)....Pages 21-37 A Political Ontological Approach to Decolonization of Ethnographic Research in Education (Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, JoAnn Phillion)....Pages 39-54 Embracing the Otherness of Others: An Approach for Teacher Educators to Assuage Social and Political Tribalism (Sonja Varbelow)....Pages 55-70 Decolonization, Counter-Narratives and Education of Two Native Women in Higher Education (Angela M. Jaime, Taylar Stagner)....Pages 71-90 Front Matter ....Pages 91-91 How Preservice Teachers Transform Pedagogical Discomfort into Multicultural Knowledge for Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Suniti Sharma)....Pages 93-111 Bridging the Gap Between African Refugee Parents and K-12 Teachers: Expanding the Meaning of School Diversity (Wangari Gichiru)....Pages 113-131 The Song-Hunting Project: Fostering Diversity in Music Education (Antía González Ben)....Pages 133-147 Phenomenology as a Path to English as a Second Language (ESL) Praxis, Curriculum and Theory-Making (Weena I. Gaulin)....Pages 149-168 Front Matter ....Pages 169-169 Getting Comfortable with the Uncomfortable: Conversations About Race, Culture, and Transformative Pedagogy in an Urban-Based Professional Learning Community (Althier M. Lazar, Danielle Nicolino)....Pages 171-189 Teachers’ Storied Cultural Tensions of Curriculum as a Standardizing Practice (Candace Schlein, Christa Wenger, Sara Crump)....Pages 191-203 Repositioning Art Education within Educational Equity in K-12 Urban Schools: A Partnership between Philadelphia Public Schools and the Barnes Foundation (Carolyn L. Berenato)....Pages 205-219 Engaging Difference in the Digital Age: Learning with/from Three Somali-Canadian, Muslim, Female YouTubers (Diane P. Watt, Kayf Abdulqadir, Fartousa Siyad, Hodan Hujaleh)....Pages 221-239