Policy, Practice, and Politics in Teacher Education : Editorials from the Journal of Teacher Education,9781412928113

Policy, Practice, and Politics in Teacher Education : Editorials from the Journal of Teacher Education

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781412928113
ISBN10: 1412928117
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-01-24
Publisher(s): Corwin Pr
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Summary

This powerful text organizes Marilyn Cochran-Smith's influential essays from the Journal of Teacher Education into one concise guide to teacher preparation at its best.

Author Biography

Marilyn Cochran-Smith holds the John E. Cawthorne Millenium Chair in Teacher Education for Urban Schools at Boston College's Lynch School of Education where she directs the doctoral program in curriculum and instruction.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Prologue: Policy, Practice, and Politics: Taking Stock of the Field
Teacher Education at the Turn of the Century
Gambling on the Future
The Questions That Drive Reform
Learning to Teach Against the (New) Grain
Multicultural Education: Solution or Problem for American Schools?
Higher Standards for Prospective Teachers: What's Missing From the Discourse?
Reforming Teacher Education: Competing Agendas
Desperately Seeking Solutions
Teacher Education, Ideology, and Napoleon
What's Preparation Got to Do With It?
What a Difference a Definition Makes: Highly Qualified Teachers, Scientific Research, and Teacher Education
The Research Base for Teacher Education: Metaphors We Live (And Die?) By
Reporting on Teacher Quality: The Politics of Politics
The Unforgiving Complexity of Teaching: Avoiding Simplicity in the Age of Accountability
Teaching Quality Matters
Assessing Assessment in Teacher Education
Teacher Education's Bermuda Triangle: Dichotomy, Mythology, and Amnesia
Sometimes It's Not About The Money: Teaching and Heart
Taking Stock in 2004: Teacher Education in Dangerous Times
Ask a Different Question, Get a Different Answer: The Research Base for Teacher Education
The Report of the Teaching Commission: What's Really at Risk?
The Problem of Teacher Education
Stayers, Leavers, Lovers, and Dreamers: Insights About Teacher Retention
Taking Stock in 2005: Getting Beyond the Horse Race
No Child Left Behind: 3 Years and Counting
The Politics of Teacher Education and the Curse of Complexity
Studying Teacher Education: What We Know and Need to Know
Teacher Education and the Outcomes Trap
Taking Stock in 2006: Evidence, Evidence Everywhere
Epilogue: The Future of Teacher Education: Promises and Pitfalls
Index
About the Author
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