Navigating Teacher Education in Complex and Uncertain Times: Connecting Communities of Practice in a Borderless World

Carmen I. Mercado draws on four decades of seminal research and theory on how American children, who come from homes where languages other than English are spoken, learn to read and to write in school to reveal aspects of locally-responsive planning and adaptations that should be central to any teacher education program that hopes to serve its unique, local population base responsibly.

Mercado uses a range of theoretical lenses particularly those surrounding critical theory, the approach de...