Beyond the Classroom Walls

Teaching in Challenging Social Contexts

Jerome Cranston

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798216235361
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Classroom Management

Written for practicing teachers and administrators, teacher candidates, and scholars who work in the fields of pre-service and in-service teacher education, Beyond the Classroom Walls: Teaching in Challenging Social Contextsprovides a richly descriptive, research-based inside-look at formal education in some challenging international socio-political and ethno-cultural settings. Based on data from three ethnographic studies conducted over a three-year period, this book illustrates the daily challenges and complexities that educators face in trying to meet the needs of their students in some the world's more challenging contexts. In an era of increased forced migration and refugee resettlement, supporting teachers' and school-based administrators' global understandings of the teaching profession and what constitutes teaching is a vital first step in being able to relate with a diverse school population whose experiences of schooling are quite different from the majority of their teachers.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: A Framework for Understanding Teaching in a Complex, Heterogeneous World
• Chapter Two: Seeing beyond the Stories
• Chapter Three: A Modicum of Opportunity in the Haze of the Brickfields
• Chapter Four: Beacons of Hope Twenty Years after Genocide
• Chapter Five: Refugee Camp Schools beneath a Setting Sun
• Chapter Six: Looking Back
• Epilogue
• References
• Index
• About the Author