Middle Level Teacher Preparation across International Contexts: Understanding Local and Global Factors Influencing Teacher Education

318 Pages·2022·11.157 MB·English

by  Cheryl R. Ellerbrock, Katherine M. Main, David C. Virtue

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Middle Level Teacher
Preparation across International
Contexts
This volume offers a cross-national analysis of teacher education pro-
grams designed to prepare teachers for work in middle level schools.
The book showcases 15 detailed case studies of courses at institutions
across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa—including from coun-
tries currently underrepresented in middle level literature—which pro-
vide detailed information on programming whilst foregrounding the
political, social, and cultural factors which have influenced priorities
within teacher education. Underpinning the book is a comparative
case study framework, used to identify divergences and commonalities
within and across nations whereby factors such as globalization, pol-
icy, and socio-cultural views of teaching and adolescence are explored
as determinants of the nature, success, and challenges of middle level
teacher preparation.
This text will benefit scholars, academics, and students in the fields of
middle level education, teacher education, and international and com-
parative education. Those involved with educational policy and politics,
as well as teacher training and the sociology of education more broadly,
will also benefit from this volume.
Cheryl R. Ellerbrock is Associate Professor of Middle Grades, Social
Studies Education, and General Secondary Education at the University
of South Florida, USA.
Katherine M. Main is Associate Professor at Griffith University, Australia.
David C. Virtue is the Taft B. Botner Distinguished Professor of Middle
Grades Education at Western Carolina University, USA.
Routledge Research in Teacher Education
The Routledge Research in Teacher Education series presents the latest
research on Teacher Education and also provides a forum to discuss the
latest practices and challenges in the field.
Communicating Social Justice in Teacher Education
Insights from a Critical Classroom Ethnography
Aubrey A. Huber
Teacher Education for Inclusive Bilingual Contexts
Collective Reflection to Support Emergent Bilinguals with and without
Disabilities
Patricia Martínez-Álvarez
Using Young Adult Literature to Work through Wobble Moments in
Teacher Education
Literary Response Groups to Enhance Reflection and Understanding
Dawan Coombs and Jon Ostenson
English for Young Learners in Asia
Challenges and Directions for Teacher Education
Edited by Subhan Zein and Yuko Goto Butler
Moral and Political Values in Teacher Education Over Time
International Perspectives
Edited by Nick Mead
Middle Level Teacher Preparation across International Contexts
Understanding Local and Global Factors Influencing Teacher
Education
Edited by Cheryl R. Ellerbrock, Katherine M. Main, and David C. Virtue
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.
com/Routledge-Research-in-Teacher-Education/book-series/RRTE
Middle Level Teacher
Preparation across
International Contexts
Understanding Local and Global
Factors Influencing Teacher Education
Edited by
Cheryl R. Ellerbrock, Katherine M. Main,
and David C. Virtue
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This book is dedicated to all the middle grades teachers
worldwide who are passionate about reaching and teaching
young adolescent learners and to all our teacher education
colleagues who inspire future generations of middle grades
teachers to engage in this important profession.
—Cheryl R. Ellerbrock, Katherine M. Main,
and David C. Virtue

Contents
List of Figures x
List of Tables xi
List of Contributors xii
Foreword by Penny Bishop xv
Introduction
1 Teacher Preparation for Middle Level Education:
An International Perspective 3
KATHERINE M. MAIN, DAVID C. VIRTUE, AND CHERYL R. ELLERBROCK
PART I
Middle Level Teacher Preparation in Africa 11
2 Teacher Training at the Oldest Institute in Angola:
Preparing Secondary Level English Language
Teachers 13
KATHLEEN F. MALU AND DÉLCIO J. F. TWEUHANDA
3 Teacher Training at the Institut Supérieur
Pédagogique in Bukavu, République Démocratique
du Congo 32
KATHLEEN F. MALU AND JOSEPH KALEBA WALINGENE
4 Middle Level Teacher Education in Uganda:
Reclaiming Your Past, Identifying Your Present,
and Imagining Your Future 50
DIANE ROSS, DORIS MAANDEEBO ABIRIA, DOREEN ALUMAYA,
SAM ANDEMA, AND IRENE OROMA
viii Contents
PART II
Middle Level Teacher Preparation in Asia-Pacific 67
5 Understanding the Middle Years Learner: The Role of
Service-Learning in an Initial Teacher Education Program 69
ANNE COFFEY AND SHANE LAVERY
6 Teaching Teachers How to Teach Adolescents:
A Regional Australian Perspective 83
MICHELLE A. VANDERBURG AND RICKIE J. FISHER
7 Teaching beyond the Test: Preparing Teachers of Young
Adolescents in Japan 98
MASATO OGAWA, TOSHINORI KUWABARA, AND JUN TAKESHIMA
PART III
Middle Level Teacher Preparation in Europe and
the Middle East 115
8 Nord University: Teacher Education in Transition 117
JESSICA ALLEN HANSSEN
9 Educación Artística en España: Promoting Democratic
Values in Young Adolescents through Critical Visual
Thinking in Social Studies Teacher Education in
Murcia, Spain 136
JUAN RAMÓN MORENO-VERA AND BÁRBARA C. CRUZ
10 Teacher Training for the Middle School Level in Turkey:
The Example of Marmara University Atatürk Faculty
of Education 154
ZAFER İBRAHIMOĞLU
PART IV
Middle Level Teacher Preparation in the Americas 171
11 Preservice Preparation for Middle Level International
School Teachers 173
AVIS BEEK
Contents ix
12 Our Journey in Middle Years Education: Collaboration
to Enhance Community in Central Alberta, Canada 191
JULIA G. RHEAUME, HEATHER E. FANSHER, CAITLIN A. FOX,
AND BRENT GALLOWAY
13 A Lab School Partnership That Prepares Middle
Grades Teachers in Guatemala 209
GAIL S. ANDERSON AND MAYRA H. CORDÓN
14 Middle Level Teacher Preparation at the University of
South Carolina Aiken 223
BRIDGET K. COLEMAN, DEBORAH H. MCMURTRIE, AND JUDITH H. COLLAZO
15 Problematizing the Relationship between State Policy
and Educator Preparation: The Case of Middle Level
Education Program at CSU San Marcos 241
ERIKA DANIELS, RONG-JI CHEN, AND MOSES OCHANJI
16 Middle Grades Teacher Education Program in the
John H. Lounsbury College of Education:
Historically Progressive 255
JOANNE L. PREVITS, NANCY B. MIZELLE, AND KARYNNE L. M. KLEINE
Conclusion
17 Middle Level Teacher Preparation across International
Contexts: Program Features and Influential Factors 279
DAVID C. VIRTUE, CHERYL R. ELLERBROCK, AND KATHERINE M. MAIN
Index 298