1st Edition

Understanding Teacher Education in Contentious Times Political Cross-Currents and Conflicting Interests

By Catherine Cornbleth Copyright 2014
    130 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    130 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Understanding Teacher Education in Contentious Times examines how public, professional, and private or corporate agencies operate to shape teacher education and possibilities for its improvement. Teacher education programs,  particularly those leading to state certification or licensure, are influenced not only by state regulations but also by required review and accreditation by an outside agency such as the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, and are subject to various contextual pressures such as the cultures of the institutions that host them and their surrounding communities, their potential student and employer markets, strong individuals, professional organizations, history or tradition, and, increasingly, external, usually privately-funded, special interest corporations such as the National Council on Teacher Quality.  Unique among books on teacher education, this volume interweaves—in historical context including emerging trends—the complex contexts in which practice and reform efforts take place and are supported or impeded.  

    Contents


    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    Chapter 1:  If We’re Serious about Understanding Teacher Education and Its Reform

    Chapter 2:  Constraints: State Regulations

    Chapter 3:  Constraints and Possibilities: Professional Accreditation

    Chapter 4:  Constraints:  Private/Corporate Interests

    Chapter 5:  Discourses as Constraints and Possibilities Affecting Policy and Practice

    Chapter 6:  Grounds for Hope?

    References

     

    Biography

    Catherine Cornbleth is Professor Emerita, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, USA.