The Struggle For The Soul Of Teacher Education

Author : Kenneth M. Zeichner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351579001

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The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education by Kenneth M. Zeichner Pdf

The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education is a much-needed exploration of the unprecedented current controversies and debates over teacher education and professionalism. Set within the context of neo-liberal education reforms across the globe, the book explores how the current struggles over teaching and teacher education in the US came about, as well as reflections on where we should head in the future. Zeichner provides specific examples of work that moves teacher education toward greater congruency between ideals and practices, while outlining the basis for a new form of community-based teacher education, where universities and other program providers, local communities, school districts, and teacher unions share responsibility for the preparation of teachers. Ultimately, Zeichner problematizes an uncritical shift to more practice and clinical experience, and discusses the enduring problems of clinical teacher education that need to be addressed for this shift to be educative. Readers are sure to gain insight on transforming teacher education so it more adequately addresses the need to prepare teachers capable of providing a high-quality education with access to a rich and broad curriculum, and culturally and community responsive teaching for everyone’s children.

Author : Tom Are Trippestad,Anja Swennen,Tobias Werler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474285551

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The Struggle for Teacher Education by Tom Are Trippestad,Anja Swennen,Tobias Werler Pdf

Reform of teacher education is en vogue worldwide today due to the widespread belief that teacher education has the power to change traditional modes of schooling, educating new teachers who will be capable of improving the knowledge standard of children and boost the economic power of nations. The Struggle for Teacher Education brings together conceptual, comparative and empirical studies from Australia, England, Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and South America to explore the ways in which professional education has been positioned in a reactive mode. The contributors discuss how teacher education is a contested division in higher education and look at how current reform efforts may limit the potential and work of teacher education, highlighting why this point needs more attention. Moreover, the collection reveals how teacher education's authorship on teacher professionalism may be weakened or strengthened by current reform drives and offers alternative models on how to rethink reforming teacher education.

Author : Tom Del Prete
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429656569

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Partnership and Powerful Teacher Education by Tom Del Prete Pdf

This collaborative volume offers an in-depth portrait and valuable reference for the development of clinical or school-embedded partnerships in teacher preparation by drawing on the decades-long partnership between a university and set of schools in an urban neighborhood. In the midst of a national movement towards partnership-based clinical teacher education, this book explains and illustrates the roles, commitments, and collaborative practices that have evolved. Divided into three parts, contributors outline the theory and practice of the clinical teacher preparation model and its neighborhood focus, covering topics such as: The social and institutional context of partnership development and teacher education; Key collaborative and learning practices; Challenges and questions that have emerged, and what can be learned from the experience. Written with voices of university faculty, school educators, program graduates, and students from partner schools, Thomas Del Prete offers a volume perfect for those looking to be inspired by an example of clinical teacher education and partnership in an urban community and to learn what can be achieved with conviction and perseverance over time.

Author : Peter P. Grimmett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000520446

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Restoring Soul, Passion, and Purpose in Teacher Education by Peter P. Grimmett Pdf

This text both challenges and traces the development of a culture of regulation, standardization, performativity, and governmentality evident in Anglophone teaching practice and education. Framed by a brief history of teacher education research and policy in North America over the last six decades, the text argues that the instrumentalization of curriculum and pedagogy has robbed teachers of their pedagogical soul, passion, and purpose. Using a conceptual model, Grimmett forges a pathway for teachers to adopt a soulful way forward in professional practice, individually and collectively enhancing autonomy over programs, and protecting the public trust placed in them as educators. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in teachers and teacher education, educational policy and politics, and curriculum thinking and enactment more broadly. Those specifically interested in pedagogy, educational change and reform, and the philosophy of education will also benefit from this book.

Author : Megan Blumenreich,Bethany L. Rogers
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807764688

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Schooling Teachers by Megan Blumenreich,Bethany L. Rogers Pdf

"This book moves beyond the purported dichotomy between university-based teacher education and alternatives such as Teach For America to consider their common challenges and suggest a starting place from which to imagine a future of more effective teacher preparation. In focusing on the experiences of the first Teach For America cohort between 1990-1992, the book anchors its analysis in a particular historical moment, allowing a significant accounting of a pivotal time in [teacher] education as well as thoughtful consideration of both change and continuity in how teachers have been prepared and entered the classroom over the decades since. Through its use of oral history testimonies, Schooling Teachers offers important stories about individuals' personal experiences and actions, but also reveals the broader collective and social forces that shaped and gave meaning to those experiences. Richly detailed qualitative data, in the form of oral history, enables the authors to draw from the specific narratives some general insights that speak to the larger issues of staffing and supporting urban schools"--

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Educational change
ISBN : 9628077228

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Educational Reform and the Struggle for the Soul of the Teacher! by Stephen J. Ball Pdf

Author : Theodore Michael Christou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315411354

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The Curriculum History of Canadian Teacher Education by Theodore Michael Christou Pdf

Organized by region, this edited collection provides a comprehensive look at how teacher education has evolved regionally and nationally in Canada. Offering an in-depth look at specific provinces and territories, this volume contextualizes the landscape of Canadian public education and the place of teacher education within it. Shedding light on the ways Canadian teacher education was shaped by and in turn influenced its environment, contributors evaluate the current state of education and consider themes, tensions, and historical developments, presenting a view of teacher education that encompasses both its future and its past. A significant contribution to the field of curriculum history, this book offers a benchmark for conversations about the purposes, means, and ends of teacher education in Canada.

Author : Ian Menter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1761 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031161933

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The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research by Ian Menter Pdf

This handbook presents a timeless, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource covering major issues in the field of teacher education research. In a global landscape where migration, inequality, climate change, political upheavals and strife continue to be broadly manifest, governments and scholars alike are increasingly considering what role education systems can play in achieving stability and managed, sustainable economic development. With growing awareness that the quality of education is very closely related to the quality of teachers and teaching, teacher education has moved into a key position in international debate and discussion. This volume brings together transnational perspectives to provide insight and evidence of current policy and practice in the field, covering issues such as teacher supply, preservice education, continuing professional learning, leadership development, professionalism and identity, comparative and policy studies, as well as gender, equity, and social justice.

Author : Peter W. Cookson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0300064993

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School Choice by Peter W. Cookson Pdf

The school choice reform movement believes parents should have a choice of where they send their children to school. In this book the author, an educational sociologist, discusses the practice and politics of school choice objectively and comprehensively.

Author : Leah Wasburn-Moses,Philo C. Wasburn
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781793602336

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Student Teaching by Leah Wasburn-Moses,Philo C. Wasburn Pdf

Student teaching is considered to be the single most powerful learning experience in teacher preparation. Although much has been made of its importance, surprisingly little research has been conducted specifically on student teaching, which some claim has remained unchanged for a century. Because student teaching is nearly universal in a field with wide-ranging practices even within a single institution of higher education, the possibility of modification in student teaching to lead reform in teacher preparation is quite strong. The authors present a history of student teaching, theory, practice, and policy; review the research literature, past and present; and present practical guidelines for reform that align with evidence.

Author : Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315466033

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Teacher Education and Teaching as Struggling for the Soul by Thomas S. Popkewitz Pdf

Challenging conventional ways of thinking about school reforms and teacher education, this book analyses how the "knowledge systems" which organize how teachers’ observe, supervise, and evaluate children produces norms that have the effect of excluding children who are poor and of color. Building on Struggling for the Soul (1998), his original study of the day-to-day life of new teachers in the Teach for America program, Popkewitz delves deeper into how the teaching and learning practices of urban and rural schools. Applying an ethnographic focus to how difference and divisions are produced to exclude despite efforts to include, he explores the complexities of educational change and raises important questions about the politics of schooling, knowledge and power. This book provides an original way of thinking about ethnography through a critical post-foundational approach. Conceptually focusing the ethnography of "the system of reason" that organizes teacher practices, the analysis offers a critical lens to understand the contemporary politics of school reform, the limits of teacher research, and suggests why current teacher and teacher education reforms may conserve the very conditions required for change. Beyond its relevance to U.S. schools, the conceptual and methodological resources of the book have relevance internationally, especially given the global important of education responding to cultural and social diversity through teacher and teacher education reforms.

Author : Tiffany L. Gallagher,Katia Ciampa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030478216

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Teaching Literacy in the Twenty-First Century Classroom by Tiffany L. Gallagher,Katia Ciampa Pdf

This book discusses current issues in literacy teacher education and illuminates the complexity of supporting self-efficacious educators to teach language and literacy in the twenty-first century classroom. In three sections, chapter authors first detail how teacher education programs can be revamped to include content and methods to inspire self-efficacy in pre-service teachers, then reimagine how teacher candidates can be set up for success toward obtaining this. The final section encourages readers to ruminate on the interplay among teacher candidates as they transition into practice and work to have both self- and collective- efficacy.

Author : Elena Aydarova
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438476155

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Teacher Education Reform as Political Theater by Elena Aydarova Pdf

An ethnography of Russian teacher education reforms as scripted performances of political theater. Around the world, countries undertake teacher education reforms in response to international norms and assessments. Russia has been no exception. Elena Aydarova develops a unique theatrical framework to tell the story of a small group of reformers who enacted a major reform to modernize teacher education in Russia. Based on scripts circulated in global policy networks and ideologies of national development, this reform was implemented despite great opposition—but how? Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Aydarova teases out the contradictions in this process. Teacher Education Reform as Political Theater reveals how the official story of improving education obscured dramatic and, ultimately, socially conservative changes in the purposes of schooling, the nature and perception of teachers’ work, and the design of teacher education. Despite the official rhetoric, Aydarova argues, modernization reforms such as we see in the Russian context normalize social inequality and put educational systems at the service of global corporations. As similar dramas unfold around the world, this book considers how members of scholarly communities and the broader public can respond to reformers’ stories of crises and urgent calls for reform on other national stages. “This book provides an unprecedented ethnographic look into the making of national education policy. The setting, amazingly, is Russia, but the volume raises questions about how ideas become policy in other nations as well. It is thus a highly provocative and fascinating case study that should get the attention of anyone interested in national and global education policymaking.” — Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, coeditor of Comparing Ethnographies: Local Studies of Education Across the Americas

Author : JoAnne Ferrara,Janice L. Nath,Ronald Beebe
Publisher : IAP
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648021367

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Exploring Cultural Competence in Professional Development Schools by JoAnne Ferrara,Janice L. Nath,Ronald Beebe Pdf

This book examines the ways in which PDSs build cultural competence for various stakeholders including pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, school leaders, college faculty, and K-12 students. Given the increased national attention on the opportunity gap present in underserved marginalized communities across the country, the authors in this series identify a combination of research-based practices and institutional changes that increase student attainment and develop educators’ capacity to serve a range of diverse learners. We are certain the timeliness of the topic will provide educators with context for understanding the role PDSs play in the creation of culturally responsive schools.

Author : John Loughran,Mary Lynn Hamilton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811003660

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International Handbook of Teacher Education by John Loughran,Mary Lynn Hamilton Pdf

The International Handbooks of Teacher Education cover major issues in the field through chapters that offer detailed literature reviews designed to help readers to understand the history, issues and research developments across those topics most relevant to the field of teacher education from an international perspective. This volume is divided into two sections: The organisation and structure of teacher education; and, knowledge and practice of teacher education. The first section explores the complexities of teacher education, including the critical components of preparing teachers for teaching, and various aspects of teaching and teacher education that create tensions and strains. The second examines the knowledge and practice of teacher education, including the critical components of teachers’ professional knowledge, the pedagogy of teacher education, and their interrelationships, and delves into what we know and why it matters in teacher education.