Professional Development

Contrapuntal to the tendencies toward the homogenization of educational experience that globalizing policies install and in an effort to foster in teachers a deep capacity for responsiveness, the authors in this collection variously assert the importance of initial and continuing professional education that fosters teachers’ intellectual freedom and study, advances an informed and critical appreciation of civic particularity and historical circumstance and cultivates ethical (i.e. pedagogical) engagement with ideas and histories—their own and their students—animated by analysis, critique, interpretation and resymbolization—as crucial themes of teacher education.