Preparing the Next Generation of Educators for Democracy.

In the keynote address of the 42nd annual meeting of the Southeastern Regional Educators Association (SRATE), ATE President Karen Embry-Jenlink examines the critical role of teacher educators in preparing the next generation of citizens and leaders to sustain democracy. Drawing from historic and current events and personal experience, Embry-Jenlink issues a call to action for teacher educators to envision a new social order premised upon the democratic ideal of education as a public good that will support a 21st century national system of public education, which successfully prepares all of its students for living and working within a democratic and global society.