Understanding Teacher Education in Contentious Times - Political Cross-Currents and Conflicting Interests

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. ¿

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Cornbleth, Catherine (University At Buffalo Cornbleth, Cornbleth Catherine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2013
• EAN: 9780415643122
• ISBN: 978-0-415-64312-2
• No. of pages: 122
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions, Organization & management of education, teacher training, Educational administration and organization, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy