Policy, Practice, and Politics in Teacher Education : Editorials from the Journal of Teacher Education

by Marilyn Cochran-Smith

• ISBN13: 9781412928113
• ISBN10: 1412928117
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781506318394
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-24
• Publisher: Corwin Pr
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Summary

This powerful text organizes Marilyn Cochran-Smith's influential essays from the Journal of Teacher Education into one concise guide to teacher preparation at its best.

Author Biography

Marilyn Cochran-Smith holds the John E. Cawthorne Millenium Chair in Teacher Education for Urban Schools at Boston College's Lynch School of Education where she directs the doctoral program in curriculum and instruction.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

Prologue: Policy, Practice, and Politics: Taking Stock of the Field

Teacher Education at the Turn of the Century

Gambling on the Future

The Questions That Drive Reform

Learning to Teach Against the (New) Grain

Multicultural Education: Solution or Problem for American Schools?

Higher Standards for Prospective Teachers: What's Missing From the Discourse?

Reforming Teacher Education: Competing Agendas

Desperately Seeking Solutions

Teacher Education, Ideology, and Napoleon

What's Preparation Got to Do With It?

What a Difference a Definition Makes: Highly Qualified Teachers, Scientific Research, and Teacher Education

The Research Base for Teacher Education: Metaphors We Live (And Die?) By

Reporting on Teacher Quality: The Politics of Politics

The Unforgiving Complexity of Teaching: Avoiding Simplicity in the Age of Accountability

Teaching Quality Matters

Assessing Assessment in Teacher Education

Teacher Education's Bermuda Triangle: Dichotomy, Mythology, and Amnesia

Sometimes It's Not About The Money: Teaching and Heart

Taking Stock in 2004: Teacher Education in Dangerous Times

Ask a Different Question, Get a Different Answer: The Research Base for Teacher Education

The Report of the Teaching Commission: What's Really at Risk?

The Problem of Teacher Education

Stayers, Leavers, Lovers, and Dreamers: Insights About Teacher Retention

Taking Stock in 2005: Getting Beyond the Horse Race

No Child Left Behind: 3 Years and Counting

The Politics of Teacher Education and the Curse of Complexity

Studying Teacher Education: What We Know and Need to Know

Teacher Education and the Outcomes Trap

Taking Stock in 2006: Evidence, Evidence Everywhere

Epilogue: The Future of Teacher Education: Promises and Pitfalls

Index

About the Author

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