Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education reconceptualizes the purpose of education to include the attainment of global or cosmopolitan perspectives. This goal has important implications for how we not only educate today’s students, but also how we prepare teachers to teach in a diverse and complex world in which habits of perspective, inquiry, imagination, empathy, communication, commitment, humility, integrity, and judgment increasingly resonate in importance. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to acquire a nuanced, global perspective of their subject areas and be prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. To this end, Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education encourages the development of pedagogical strategies that will enable students to consider multiple perspectives and cultivate respect for diverse peoples and cultures.

Contributions by: Burcu Ates, Perien Joniell Boer, Alexandra Brown, Marya Burke, Francesca Caena, Steven Camicia, Marialuisa Di Stefano, Wangari Gichiru, Efrat Harel, Matthew Knoester, Katrina Macht, Alan S. Marcus, Leigh Martin, David M. Moss, Mary Petrón, Alison Price-Rom, Sarah Thomas, Tina Waldman, Hilary Wilder, Jacalyn Giacalone Willis, Eleanor Vernon Wilson