A Turning Point in Teacher Education
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A Turning Point in Teacher Education

A Time for Resistance, Reflection, and Change

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A Turning Point in Teacher Education

A Time for Resistance, Reflection, and Change

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Activism Matters
  5. Chapter 1: Turning Points
  6. Part II: The Hijacking of the Education Narrative
  7. Chapter 2: Reform, Accountability, and Compromising K–12 Education
  8. Chapter 3: Neoliberalism
  9. Chapter 4: Working to Eliminate Traditional Teacher Education Programs
  10. Part III: Teacher Education and the Politics Within
  11. Chapter 5: A Rocky Historical Road toward Teacher Education
  12. Chapter 6: Sameness versus Difference
  13. Chapter 7: Sameness versus Difference
  14. Chapter 8: The Macro versus Micro Challenge
  15. Chapter 9: Two-Stepping among Colleges of Education, Accrediting Agencies, and State Departments of Education
  16. Chapter 10: Quantity versus Quality in Accepting Teacher Candidates
  17. Part IV: The Question of What and How to Teach
  18. Chapter 11: The Relationship between Curriculum and Instruction
  19. Chapter 12: Models, Approaches, and Frameworks
  20. Chapter 13: How Should We Teach?
  21. Chapter 14: Should We Emphasize Universal Human Development or Diversity?
  22. Chapter 15: The Question of Online Delivery Systems in Teacher Education
  23. Part V: Teacher Education and Moving Forward
  24. Chapter 16: Realize the Distraction in Order to Move Forward
  25. Chapter 17: In Need of a “Flexner-Like” Moment in Teacher Education
  26. References
  27. About the Authors