The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Yearbook XXIV offers 16 captivating chapters related to establishing a sense of place or belonging for P-12 students, classroom teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators. The chapters include theory, research, concepts, principles, practices, and programs that inform and support as well as question and challenge readers from multiple perspectives. Readers gain insights and inspiration that illustrate ways teachers and learners negotiate meaning in environments where everyone experiences social and cultural connections with personal and academic fulfillment. Collectively, the authors identify, describe, analyze, and advance issues associated with creating both an individual and a shared sense of place among the ever-changing populations in contemporary P-12 schools and classrooms. Like human geographers, teacher educators and educational researchers study environments where children grow up and create bonds with their early environments that continue to influence them throughout their lives based on the ways in which meaning is negotiated in that early space. Candidates, teachers, and teacher educators benefit by investigating the presence and power of these landscapes impacting the teaching, learning, and schooling.

About the Author
LeAnn G. Putney, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Educational Psychology and Higher Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with expertise in ethnographic classroom research, sociocultural theory, and discourse processes. She is active in ATE, AERA, and TESOL, has co-founded a K-12 public charter school, Innovations International Charter School of Nevada. Nancy P. Gallavan, PhD, is Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Central Arkansas with an expertise in classroom assessments, cultural competence, and social studies education. She received the 2013 UCA Research Award, served as the 2013-14 ATE President, and was inducted into the 2013 Kappa Delta Pi Honorary Eleanor Roosevelt-Lifetime Legacy Chapter.


Book Information
ISBN 9781475824568
Author LeAnn G. Putney
Format Hardback
Page Count 292
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 844g
Dimensions(mm) 262mm * 185mm * 23mm