Cases on Preparing Pre-Service Educators for Culturally Sustaining Practice

Existing educators face an urgent and paradoxical challenge when preparing pre-service educators to honor the full humanity of their students while the language and frameworks of that work face legislative and institutional constraint. New legislation in various states has narrowed what educators may teach and discuss. Such educational policy restraints differ in urban and rural schools, faith-based and tribal institutions, and elementary and secondary preparation. Most existing frameworks for this work were built for an earlier policy climate, one that never had to account for the constraints existing educators navigate today. Further exploration may produce new methods for pre-service teaching while considering the culture, traditions, and practices of their respective regions. Cases on Preparing Pre-Service Educators for Culturally Sustaining Practice advances research on how existing educators can sustain ethical, equity-centered, multicultural education within today’s constrained policy environments. By centering the present policy moment across a wide range of institutional and geographic settings, this book bridges theory and practice with concrete tools and assessment strategies that hold equity commitments within restrictive climates. Covering topics such as community-responsive computational thinking and engineering, curricular discretion in pre-service educators, and epistemic agency in borderland communities, this book is an indispensable academic resource for existing educators, graduate and doctoral students, pre-service teacher preparation program directors, curriculum theorists, education policymakers, and more.