Superdiversity and Teacher Education

Supporting Teachers in Working with Culturally, Linguistically, and Racially Diverse Students, Families, and Communities

Jim Anderson editor Guofang Li editor Jan Hare editor Marianne McTavish editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:31st Mar '21

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This edited volume addresses the pressing imperative to understand and attend to the needs of the fast-growing population of minority students who are increasingly considered "superdiverse" in their cultural, linguistic, and racial backgrounds. Superdiverse learners—including native-born learners (Indigenous and immigrant families), foreign-born immigrant students, and refugees—may fill multiple categories of "diversity" at once. This volume helps pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators to move beyond the demographic backgrounds of superdiverse learners to consider not only their ways of being, motivations, and social processes, but also the ongoing systemic issues of marginalization and inequity that confront these learners.

Challenging existing teaching and learning paradigms in the K-12 North American context, this volume provides new methods and examples for supporting superdiverse learners in a range of settings. Organized around different conceptual underpinnings of superdiversity, contributors identify the knowledge gaps and effective practices in engaging superdiverse learners, families and communities. With cutting-edge research on this growing topic, this text will appeal to researchers, scholars, educators, and graduate students in multilingual education, literacy education, teacher education, and international education.

"The four editors (Li, Anderson, Hare, and McTavish) bring a wealth of knowledge from various intersecting fields, including transnational language, literacy, indigenous education, and teacher education…Even the editorial board represents superdiversity in their professional approaches…Anyone already engaged in work described as culturally relevant, culturally sustaining, critical race, abolitionist, or intersectional (for example) will find agreement and support from these chapters."

-- Teachers College Record, August 30, 2021

ISBN: 9780367482619

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Weight: 789g

322 pages