Description:
This ground-breaking book uses a comprehensive study of a novel Masters Education program to showcase how teachers can be engaged in authoritative justice-inquiry-based research, using comparative education theory and the UNESCO SDGs as powerful frameworks.
Review Quotes:
'This book powerfully addresses the most salient topics in education today. It revolves around an innovative online M.Ed. Global Education Program, focusing on effective learning environments, teachers, teacher education, and sustainability. Maria Teresa Tatto and her contributors are to be congratulated for wisely using technology to advance global education.'
Cheryl J. Craig, Professor and Houston Endowment Endowed Chair of Urban Education, Texas A&M University, USA
'This book offers a gift to teacher education. Empowering Teachers for Equitable and Sustainable Education: Action Research, Teacher Agency, and Online Community presents a fully theorised, practical model of professional learning that addresses inequities by evidencing the transformations that are possible when teachers are empowered to pursue difficult questions that are worth asking.'
Caroline Daly, Professor University College London, Institute of Education, UK
'The commitment to equitable and sustainable education that this book demonstrates is represented by the empowerment of the teachers who have contributed. These educators work in various settings worldwide, and their lead tutor and editor of this groundbreaking volume, Maria Teresa Tatto, offers inspiration to everyone who shares this commitment.'
Ian Menter, Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford, UK
'This is a fascinating book about an innovative online master's degree program for teachers internationally, where teachers use action research to investigate how specific equity issues are defined and dealt with in different countries and contexts. The program aims to empower teachers to address specific issues in their local contexts.'
Ken Zeichner, Emeritus Boeing Professor of Teacher Education, University of Washington, USA