Understanding Glocal Contexts: What Every Novice Teacher Needs to Know is an edited volume that is a part of a book series mostly designed to help undergraduate students determine if joining the teaching profession is for them. This book focuses on the historical and sociocultural foundations of education and its importance for novice teachers. It also provides the global and local (glocal) foundations for understanding the current context of public education, utilizing historical, sociological, cultural, and economic and political sciences contexts and perspectives.