Transforming World Language Teaching and Teacher Education for Equity and Justice: Pushing Boundaries in Us Contexts - Paperback

by Beth Wassell (Editor), Cassandra Glynn (Editor)

This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in the US. The chapters address how world language teachers approach social justice in their teaching, and how teacher educators prepare teachers to teach for social justice in the language classroom.

Author Biography

Beth Wassell is Professor in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Education, Rowan University, USA. Her research interests include language teaching and learning, teacher education, critical and social justice approaches, and qualitative research.

Cassandra Glynn is Associate Professor in the Department of Education, Concordia College, USA. She is the author (with Pamela Wesely and Beth Wassell) of Words and Actions: Teaching World Languages Through a Lens of Social Justice (2018, ACTFL).