The Role of Access in Preparing Globally Competent Special Education Teachers

Resources

Readings

Adamson, W. (1983). Hegemony and revolution: Antonio Gramsci’s political and cultural theory. Fernwood Publishing: Winnepeg, Manitoba.

Ajuwon, P.M. (2008).  Inclusive education for students with disabilities in Nigeria: Benefits, challenges and policy implications. International Journal of Special Education, 23(3), 11-16.

Artiles, A.J., & Dyson, A. (2005). Inclusive education in the globalization age: The promise of comparative cultural historical analysis.  In D. Mitchell (Ed.), Contextualizing inclusive education, 37-62. London: Routledge.

Au, W. (2009).  Social studies, social justice: W(h)ither the social studies in high stakes testing? Teacher Education Quarterly, 36, 43-58.

Friedman, T.L. (2005). The world is flat. NY: Farrar, Straus & Girous Publishing.

Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. NY:  Continuum.

Friere, P. (1992). Education for Critical Consciousness.  NY: Continuum.

Gordon, B.M. (1993). African-American cultural knowledge and liberty education: Dilemmas, problems, and potentials in a postmodern American society.  Urban Education,27, 4, 448-470.

Giroux, H. A. (2003). Betraying the intellectual tradition: Public intellectual is the crisis of youth. Language and Intercultural Communication, 3(3), 172-186.

Harry, B., Arnaiz. P., Klingner, J., & Sturges, K. (2008). Schooling and the construction of identity among minority students in Spain and the United States.  The Journal of Special Education, 42(1), 15-25.

Longview Foundation (2008).  Teacher preparation for the global age: The imperative for change. Author.

Longworth, R. C. (2008). Caught in the middle: America’s heartland in the age of globalization. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Merryfield, M. (2008).  The challenge of globalization, preparing teaches for a global age.  Teacher Education & Practice, 21(4), 34-437.

Merryfield, M. & Kasai, M. (2004).  How are teachers responding to globalization.  Social Education, 68(4), 354-359.

IRIN (December 24, 2009).  Senegal: Casamance-beating the odds to educate the children.  UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs.

Wagner, T. (2008).  The Global Achievement Gap.  NY: Basic Books Publishing.
Unknown:  Say it in Wolof

Zhao, T. (2010).  Preparing globally competent teachers: A new imperative for teacher education.  Journal of Teacher Education, 61(5), 422-431.

Websites

www.globazenvision.org/teachers
www.connection.epnet. Com/e/articles/7402699/fostering-reflective-teachers-globalized-age
www.globalizationandeducation.ed.uiuc.educ/teaching/index.htm
http://www.globalization101.org/issue

Children’s Literature

Afrique:  Coloriages. Published by rmn. (date unknown)
Epanya, C. (2009).  Mes images du Senegal. France: Le Sorbier
Keita, F. (1996). The little boy blue.  Printed in Cote d’Ivoire by ROTOCI (French Version is Le Petit Garcon Bleu)
Stowell, L. (unknown). The Baobab Tree.  Usborne First Reading series.  Available at www.usborne.com

 

Music

1 Livre 1CD mes Comptines d’afrique by de Souleymane Mbodj (2010). Available at www.editionsmilan.com