Catherine Cornbleth

Understanding Teacher Education in Contentious Times (eBook, ePUB)

Political Cross-Currents and Conflicting Interests

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136169052
• Artikelnr.: 39956963

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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