Contents
Foreword Christopher P. Brown ?ix
Acknowledgments ?xiii
Introduction ?1
?The Bubble? ?2
Place-Based Education and Its Potential ?4
A Dynamic Charge for Teacher Education ?5
Chapter Summaries ?5
1. ?The Need for Place-Based Teacher Education ?7
Contexts for the Book ?7
Three Challenges Connecting the Places ?9
Why We Need Place-Based Teacher Education ?11
Neoliberal Challenges to Place-Based Teacher Education ?13
Reclaiming Accountability ?16
Challenges of Reclaiming Accountability ?18
Questions for Reflection and Discussion ?20
What?s Next? ?20
2. ?Theoretical Framework ?21
The Nature of Meaning-Making ?21
Three Approaches to Place-Based Education ?22
Humanizing Place-Based Education in School Classrooms ?23
Place-Based Teacher Education ?29
Negotiation: Sensing and Resisting Neoliberal Policies ?32
Questions for Reflection and Discussion ?37
What?s Next? ?37
3. ?The Narrative Portfolio Project ?38
Context of the Teacher Education Program ?38
The Narrative Portfolio as a Counter-Narrative to Failure ?44
Questions for Reflection and Discussion ?56
What?s Next? ?56
4. ?Resisting Neoliberalism Through Place-Based Narrative Portfolio Work ?57
Getting Lost in Places ?58
Vignette 1. Critical Reflection on Place ?61
Vignette 2. Dialogism With Place in Mind ?65
Vignette 3. Transforming I-It to I-You ?71
Vignette 4. Diffraction: Bending Around Barriers ?75
Conclusion ?80
Questions for Reflection and Discussion ?81
What?s Next? ?81
5. ?Pairing Our Place-Based Approach With Racial Justice ?82
Antiracist Education ?83
COVID-19 and Antiracist Teaching ?87
Place-Based Education Post-Graduation ?99
Conclusion ?105
Questions for Reflection and Discussion ?106
What?s Next? ?106
6. ?Practice and Policy Implications ?107
Teacher Education Program Assessment in the ?Cluster? ?108
Transforming Teacher Education Assessment ?112
The Change Process ?114
Suggestions for Practice ?118
Conclusion ?123
Questions for Reflection and Discussion ?123
What?s Next? ?123
Appendix A. Methodology: Capturing Meanings of Place-Based Education and Assessment ?125
Background for the Study ?125
Method ?125
Appendix B. Lenses of Teacher Education and Revised ?10 Characteristics of the Novice Teacher? for PDS Mentors and Faculty Professional Development ?133
Appendix C. A Portrait of Becoming ?137
Our Places ?138
Learners and Teachers ?139
Beginning the Year: Looking and Seeing as an Ethnographer ?139
Exploring the Literature: Disrupting the Commonplaces ?140
Our Journey ?141
Our Learning ?141
A Reflective Pause With an Eye to the Future ?142
Final Thoughts ?143
Appendix D. Destiny?s Book Club: Stamped by Reynolds & Kendi (2020) (Abbreviated Version) ?145
References ?147
Index ?163
About the Authors ?175