Sustaining a Quality Education Through Community-Based Educator Preparation

Abstract

Educating prospective teachers and principals about collaboration and solidarity with community partners is necessary if schools are to play a part in building and sustaining a more democratic and socially just society.

Key words::

• community collaboration
• educator preparation
• social justice

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Notes on contributors

Maureen D. Gillette

Maureen D. Gillette is Dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Seton Hall University. She is a veteran teacher whose scholarship is focused on programs that prepare community-based teachers for urban schools. She is coauthor (with Djanna Hill) of the Second Edition of Martin Haberman's Star Teachers of Children in Poverty (Routledge & KDP, 2017). E-mail: [email protected].