The Education Professoriate: Introductory Foundations Faculty, 1987 RATE Data.

Overview & Synopsis

This report describes characteristics of teacher education faculty who are teaching the introductory foundations courses, their background and preparation, scholarly productivity, field activity, professional activities and salaries. The study population was drawn from member institutions of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). The report also presents comparisons between these faculty and the secondary methods faculty described in the AACTE 1986 Research About Teacher Education (RATE) study. For purposes of the questionnaire, foundations of education is defined as those education courses or course components which engage students in a critical examination of the relationships between the disciplines (e.g., philosophy, sociology, history) and educational practice and policy. The profile of a foundations of education professor is that of a middle-aged, white, male who is busy in a variety of professional endeavors, tenured, promoted, and place-bound. Data gathered by the survey are presented on graphs. (JD)