Internationalization of TESOL Teacher Education - (New Perspectives on Language and Education) by Vander Tavares (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This book examines internationalization practices, policies and experiences within TESOL teacher education.
- About the Author: Vander Tavares is Associate Professor in education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and holds a PhD from York University, Canada.
- 252 Pages
- Education, Professional Development
- Series Name: New Perspectives on Language and Education
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About the Book
This book examines internationalization practices, policies and experiences within TESOL teacher education. The chapters offer empirical, conceptual and theoretical engagements with the internationalization of TESOL teacher program curricula from both global and critical perspectives.
Book Synopsis
This book examines internationalization practices, policies and experiences within TESOL teacher education. The chapters offer empirical, conceptual and theoretical engagements with the internationalization of TESOL teacher program curricula from both global and critical perspectives.
Review Quotes
Through interrogating the power dynamics and epistemic biases underpinning TESOL teacher education worldwide, the authors in this volume go beyond just highlighting the need for onto-epistemological diversity. Instead, they argue that TESOL teacher education must center inequities and injustices situated in people's lived experiences to cultivate antiracism and social justice. As such, this book offers a rare and critical lens that demands transformative change in the field. A must-read for educators, researchers, and policymakers committed to equity and social justice in language education.
Tavares's newest book is a bold, hopeful, and timely effort to expand our limited understanding of the internationalization of teacher education in TESOL. Featuring contributions from scholars of diverse backgrounds, the chapters move fluidly between various levels of granularity and contexts. This volume serves as a much-needed clarion call for an ethically informed, contextually relevant, and socially just approach to the internationalization of both language education and language teacher education.
This is a powerful and critical volume on internationalisation. Through the lens of TESOL teacher education, it exposes the multilayered and contested practices, processes and discourses of the phenomenon. The chapters collectively demonstrate how internationalisation agendas and initiatives perpetuate different forms of inequality, but also lead us to finding ways to address these through possibilities of equity, social justice and decoloniality. A must-read!
About the Author
Vander Tavares is Associate Professor in education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and holds a PhD from York University, Canada. He is the editor of Social Justice through Pedagogies of Multiliteracies: Developing and Strengthening L2 Learner Agency and Identity (Routledge, 2025) and of Social Justice, Decoloniality, and Southern Epistemologies within Language Education (Routledge, 2023).