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Sanchez, Patricia – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
The author is grateful that this journal has taken on the production of a special theme issue entitled "Immigration and Teacher Education: The Crisis and the Opportunity." In her estimation, the "crisis" is not so much that the United States may indeed continue to enroll more immigrant children and youth in its schooling system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Inservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Peters, Susan; Gabel, Susan; Symeonidou, Simoni – Disability & Society, 2009
The social model of disability has been a useful tool to shift the focus of disability as individual deficit to disability as a social construction in an oppressive society. However, a theory of political action is needed to create transformative change. This article develops resistance as a unifying political construct and tool for action. Four…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Social Attitudes, Social Bias