Beyond the Classroom Walls: Teaching in Challenging Social Contexts [Hardcover]

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 worlds 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.Jerome Cranston is dean and professor of education at University of Regina

This captivating book based on Cranstons ethnographic field work in India, Rwanda and Nepal interweaves narration with critical social commentary about teaching and learning in challenging contexts. In particular, the discussions surrounding the multifaceted dimensions of globalizations impact on schooling provides the necessary conditions to explore cultural discontinuities and to create intercultural awareness in contemporary pedagogy. Karen Ragoonaden, University of British Columbia, author of Mindful Teaching and Learning: Developing a Pedagogy of Well-Being (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015)

Beyond the Classroom Walls is an ambitious and illuminating investigation into the lives of teachers who work in abject poverty in the brickfields of India, in the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, and in a refugee camp in Nepal. Framed by Cranstons work as a researcher in three different international settinglƒ“