Book chapter
Radically Reimagining Teacher Education through Embodiment and Improvisation
Theories, Models, and Practices of Literacy, pp.306-321
Routledge, Eighth edition
2026
DOI: 10.4324/9781003492269-23
Abstract
Drawing on contemporary and critical theories of imagination and imagining, this chapter explores the role of radical reimagination in teacher education. The focus of this chapter is to serve as a way of resisting conformity and the undermining of public education while transforming education by addressing the ways White, hegemonic norms (that lead to racial, cultural, and linguistic inequities) are perpetuated in traditional teacher education programs. In this chapter, the authors draw on scholarship in embodiment and improvisation to offer segues into supporting teachers in accessing and drawing on their radical imaginations as part of their literacy teacher education program. The authors draw from existing theories and practices to create an improvisational assemblage as a way of reimagining a novel and critical approach to justice-centered teacher education programs.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Radically Reimagining Teacher Education through Embodiment and Improvisation
- Creators
- Misty SailorsAmanda R. DiazSamuel J. Tanner
- Contributors
- Misty Sailors (Editor)Idalia Nuñez (Editor)Vaughn W. M. Watson (Editor)James V. Hoffman (Editor)Donna E. Alvermann (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Theories, Models, and Practices of Literacy, pp.306-321
- Edition
- Eighth edition
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003492269-23
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York
- Alternative title
- Theories, Models, and Practices of Literacy
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2026
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984966543402771
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