R. Khan, Rebecca Grijalva, Alejandra Enriquez-Gates
{"title":"Teachers as Change Agents: Promoting Meaningful Professional Development Using Action Research to Support International Educational Reform","authors":"R. Khan, Rebecca Grijalva, Alejandra Enriquez-Gates","doi":"10.32865/fire201952167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952167","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe professional development of teachers is an ongoing issue that is essential to supporting teachers as change agents and international educational reform. Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College acknowledges its role in supporting visiting teachers from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to utilize action research as an opportunity for professional development.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"247 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133963565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trained to Resist: Teachers Learning Lucha in Oaxaca, Mexico","authors":"Christian A. Bracho","doi":"10.32865/fire201952175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952175","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on ethnographic data and interviews with 17 teacher educators and normal school students in Oaxaca, Mexico, this article examines a particular teaching formation rooted in the concept of lucha, revolutionary struggle. Participants described how, during their four years at a normal school, they learn, rehearse, and internalize a historical set of revolutionary scripts and strategies, as part of a political role they will perform as teachers. The post-1968 generation of teachers in this study recalled learning to fight in the 1970s and 80s, in an era of great opposition to the Mexican government and national union, while the younger generation described learning how to advocate for themselves so that they can create change in their communities. The study demonstrates how teacher training can explicitly cultivate new teachers","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125472633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"This is far more complex than I could have ever imagined","authors":"Pooja Dharamshi","doi":"10.32865/fire201952169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952169","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports findings from a study examining pre-service teachers","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115940506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teachers as Change Agents: Transforming Classrooms and Communities","authors":"S. Lillo, G. Aponte-Safe","doi":"10.32865/fire201952197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952197","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction to the Special Issue:This special issue explores the theme of teachers and teacher educators as agents of change. In assembling this special issue, we sought to lift up the voices and experiences of educators in order to highlight the important ways they are innovating and actively engaged in changemaking around the world. This collection of articles offers an intentionally wide scope for interpreting teacher agency: while all pieces explore ways that educators purposefully impact their students and communities, we allow authors to interpret the concept of change agency and its relevance to their respective contexts.","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":" 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120829458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospects and Challenges of Upgrading Untrained Teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana","authors":"S. Sofo, E. Thompson, Tontie L. Kanton","doi":"10.32865/fire201952171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952171","url":null,"abstract":"Many Sub-Sahara African countries have used non-traditional teacher education programs to address the perpetual problem of inadequate provision of trained teachers. Using","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134561086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supporting secondary pre-service teacher identity development as culturally responsive and sustaining teachers","authors":"L. Fickel, J. Abbiss","doi":"10.32865/fire201952152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952152","url":null,"abstract":"In Aotearoa New Zealand, as in many pluralistic democracies, the continuing disparity in educational outcomes has resulted in a growing call for changes in teacher preparation to better support culturally diverse learners in ways that are responsive to the particular national and cultural contexts. This paper presents findings from a teacher education program specifically designed to address this need within the national context of","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114271906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between the Familiar and Strange: Understanding Good Teaching in Transnational Education Settings","authors":"Marian Riedel, Rachel F. Moll","doi":"10.32865/fire201952149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952149","url":null,"abstract":"Little has been written about how or whether pre-service teachers construct understandings of good teaching during an international field placement thus a need arises to examine these contexts as sites to question,","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129905788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Teachers as Change Agents? Assessing teachers","authors":"A. Spear","doi":"10.32865/fire201952157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952157","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to assess teachers","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"365 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133335838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fostering teachers","authors":"Supriya Baily, Halla B. Holmarsdottir","doi":"10.32865/fire201952162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952162","url":null,"abstract":"Fostering international mindedness in teachers through their preparation and continuing education leads to innovations in teacher education related to exchange programs (Cushner, 2012) and curricular adoptions and adaptations (Tudball, 2012). This in turn supports the development of both teacher educators and teachers as change agents. Yet, without investments of resources to prioritize such work in teacher preparation and professional development programs, there is little impetus to create systemic change to support how teachers","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133495825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. L, J. Mart, Erika B. Kraus, Azad Hassan, India C. Plough
{"title":"A Catalyst of Change: A Graduate Student's Perspectives on Transformational Teaching","authors":"N. L, J. Mart, Erika B. Kraus, Azad Hassan, India C. Plough","doi":"10.32865/fire201952155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32865/fire201952155","url":null,"abstract":"This article interprets teachers as change agents in light of the Transformational Teaching (TT) framework (Slavich & Zimbardo, 2012). Contributing to the understanding of teachers","PeriodicalId":232875,"journal":{"name":"FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130217215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}