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Taking the form of a personal essay, the author describes developments within teacher education in the USA over a 40-year period, since the founding of "JET." Beginning with his work within teacher education as a graduat...
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Arguing that teacher education has become rule bound, even in the use of teaching narratives and cases, and for the need to challenge beginning teachers' conceptions of teaching and learning, the author suggests parables...
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Studying democracy, and doing so critically, while striving to live it presents a peculiar and special charge to public education. As John Goodlad suggested, for teacher educators and in-service educators, this charge br...
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Within teacher education the position of educational foundations courses is increasingly precarious. Such courses are often declared irrelevant by students who embrace the aims of training and immediate practicality over...
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This essay explores the origins and practice of the "workshop" as a form of in-service teacher education developed during the Eight-Year Study (1933-1941) sponsored by the Progressive Education Association. The Eight-Yea...
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Presents the background to the standards movement in U.S. education, asserting that it has had a negative impact on teacher education and teacher education accreditation. The article describes a recent accreditation revi...
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Reviews an important period in teacher education's history sponsored by the American Council on Education's Commission on Teacher Education (1939-42), highlighting lessons learned about reform, which confirm the value of...
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Analyzes the influence of industrial metaphors in education and teacher education, arguing that education renewal requires new metaphors that represent teacher-student relationships differently from those associated with...
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Using insights from portfolios and journals in teacher education and case records in nursing, the article discusses how case records from personal teaching texts can facilitate beginning teacher development. Surveys of p...
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Describes the use of metaphor analysis to engage preservice students in an examination of their conceptions of teaching. The evolution of three students' metaphors as they proceeded through student teaching illustrates t...
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A teacher reflects on the low status of people in the teaching profession, stressing the need for improved teacher education to improve teacher status. Several hopeful signs (e.g., institutions developing teacher educati...
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Theory has traditionally been seen as belonging to the higher education domain while practical considerations have been perceived as less important and belonging to the public school domain. There is present the potentia...
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Reviews Bode's criticisms of "General Education in a Free Society: Report of the Harvard Committee" (1945). Relates Bode's views of the purposes of general education, underscoring his concern with epistemological issues ...