Department of Teacher Education

Embracing the otherness of others: an approach for teacher educators to assuage social and political tribalism

Varbelow, Sonja (Springer, Cham, 2019-01-15)

We live in a corrosively polarized climate where sharply divided beliefs about globalization and populism magnify existing biases. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that those who want to educate the next generation ...
The curriculum in praxis: how purpose of school is actualized in Vietnam, Mexico, and the United States

Varbelow, Sonja; Gee, Donna (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

What is the purpose of school, and what role does culture play in how that purpose is actualized? How this question is approached reflects how society thinks about what knowledge is of most worth, which ultimately reflects ...