Turning Point in Teacher Education (eBook)

A Time for Resistance, Reflection, and Change

Jerry Aldridge, James D. Kirylo (Autoren)

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2019
144 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-2707-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book suggests that traditional teacher education programs must deeply reflect on solidifying the place, power, and necessity of its purpose.

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Since teacher education looked to become a formal field of study in the 1800s, it has historically contended with competing forces in the effort to solidify its professional identity. Currently, that contention is juxtaposed with those external forces that look to promote fast-track teacher training, with its ultimate goal to dismantle traditional teacher education programs, and those internal forces, whereby teacher education within itself continues to struggle with its own identity, power, and influence. To that end, this book, A Turning Point in Teacher Education: A Time for Resistance, Reflection, and Change, suggests we have reached a climax point, a turning point in teacher education, meaning we must work to resist and denounce those external forces that are laboring to undermine the professionalization of what it means to be a teacher. Simultaneously, we must also deeply reflect and be clear about those internal forces at work when it comes to solidifying the place, power, and necessity of traditional teacher education programs, ultimately announcing the furthering of what should be.

Autor

James D. Kirylo is associate professor of education at the University of South Carolina. Among other books, he is author of Teaching with Purpose: The Who, Why, and How We Teach (2016) and Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife (2011). Jerry Aldridge is professor emeritus of early childhood education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is author of numerous books, including Rowman & Littlefield’s Stealing from the Mother: The Marginalization of Women in Education and Psychology from 1900-2010 (2013) with Lois M. Christensen.

Inhalt

Introduction: What is Happening with Teacher Education?PART I: ACTIVISM MATTERSChapter 1: Turning PointsPART II: THE HIJACKING OF THE EDUCATION NARRATIVEChapter 2: Reform, Accountability, and Compromising K-12 EducationChapter 3: Neoliberalism: A Systematic Effort to PrivatizeChapter 4: Working to Eliminate Traditional Teacher Education ProgramsPART III: TEACHER EDUCATION AND THE POLITICS WITHINChapter 5: A Rocky Historical Road Toward Teacher EducationChapter 6: Sameness versus Difference: Is Teacher Education Clear about Faculty Expectations? Chapter 7: Sameness versus Difference: Is Teacher Education Fair about Compensation and the Hiring Process?Chapter 8: The Macro versus Micro ChallengeChapter 9: Two-Stepping Among Colleges of Education, Accrediting Agencies, and State Departments of EducationChapter 10: Quantity versus Quality in Accepting Teacher CandidatesPART IV: THE QUESTION OF WHAT AND HOW TO TEACHChapter 11: The Relationship between Curriculum and InstructionChapter 12: Models, Approaches, and Frameworks: What’s the Difference?Chapter 13: How Should We Teach: Transmission, Transaction, or Transformation?CHAPTER 14: Should we Emphasize Universal Human Development or Diversity?Chapter 15: The Question of Online Delivery Systems in Teacher EducationPART V: MOVING FORWARDChapter 16: Realize the Distraction in Order to Move ForwardChapter 17: In Need of a “Flexner-like” Moment in Teacher Education References

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: activism • Curriculum • neoliberal • Pedagogy • Policy
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-2707-5 / 1475827075
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-2707-1 / 9781475827071