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This collection combines the perspectives of Turkish and U.S. teacher educators regarding autonomy in the teacher's profession. With methodologically diverse research approaches, it depicts changing conditions in Turkey and in the U.S. from the unique perspective of professional communities creating an international network of study and writing.
List of contents
Contents
Foreword
Corrine Glesne
Editors' Preface: Public Education, the Social Contract and a Teacher's Conscience
Fatma M¿z¿kac¿ and Guy Senese
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Fatma M¿z¿kac¿ and Guy Senese
Prologue
Peter McLaren
Part One
Power, Authority and Authoritarianism in a Neoliberal Era
Chapter 1: Room 5: The Teacher's Authority: Conscience and the Challenge to Educate
Guy Senese
Chapter 2: Being a Teacher in Turkey: Formation, Shift, Disintegration and Resistance
Ayhan Ural; Translated by Dilara Clarkson
Chapter 3: Authority and Power in the Classroom
Mustafa Sever and Birol Algan
Chapter 4: Colleges of Education and the Making of the Neoliberal University
Joseph C. Wegwert and Jean Ann Foley
Chapter 5: Exotic Pedagogy and the Critical Authority of Love
Jim Manley
Part Two
Undermined Authority and the Endangered Teacher-Intellectual
Chapter 6: Ideological Proletarianization of Teacher Educators in Turkey
Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak
Chapter 7: The Trouble with Technicians: False Standards and the Collapse of Teacher Autonomy
Brian Andrew Stone
Chapter 8: Teacher Authority, Autonomy and Authoritarianism in Turkish Vocational High School
Hasan Hüseyin Aksoy and Ebru Eren Deniz; Translated by Suna Karakä
Chapter 9: Seek and Hide: Teach For America's Strategies of Education Reform
Barbara Torre Veltri
Chapter 10: Reclaiming Academic Freedom and Shared Governance: Comparative Reflections from Kenya and USA
Ishmael Munene with Guy Senese
Part Three
Critical Impacts in Social Justice and Diversity
Chapter 11: Curriculum and State Control: The Case of Arizona's Mexican-American Studies Program
Frances Julia Riemer
Chapter 12: A Tale of Teacher Induction in a Culturally Diverse Setting: Challenges in Southeastern Turkey
Mustafa Öztürk
Chapter 13: Fostering Indigenous Teacher Voice and Autonomy
Gretchen McAllister with Damien Jones
Chapter 14: Indigenous Community Belief and Contested Dimensions of Student's Rights and the Teacher's Authority
Gerald K. Wood and Christine K. Lemley with Anaheed Hill
Chapter 15: Students' Freedom and the Authority of Regulation: The Real and the Ideal
Pelin Täk¿n
Chapter 16: Recovering Inclusion for Democracy and Special Education in an Era of Reform
Karen Sealander, Christopher Lanterman, Michelle Novelli, Laura Sujo-Montes and Adam Lockwood
Bibliography
About the Contributors
About the author
Fatma M¿z¿kac¿ is associate professor at the faculty of educational sciences at Ankara University.
Guy Senese is professor in foundations of education in the Department of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University.
Summary
This collection combines the perspectives of Turkish and U.S. teacher educators regarding autonomy in the teacher’s profession. With methodologically diverse research approaches, it depicts changing conditions in Turkey and in the U.S. from the unique perspective of professional communities creating an international network of study and writing.
