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

by Marilyn Cochran-Smith

• ISBN13: 9781412928120
• ISBN10: 1412928125
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
John I. Goodlad
Preface and Acknowledgments	xix
Prologue Policy, Practice, and Politics: Taking Stock of the Field	xxv
Teacher Education at the Turn of the Century	1	(5)
Gambling on the Future	6	(5)
The Questions That Drive Reform	11	(5)
Learning to Teach Against the (New) Grain	16	(4)
Multicultural Education: Solution or Problem for American Schools?	20	(5)
Higher Standards for Prospective Teachers: What's Missing From the Discourse?	25	(4)
Reforming Teacher Education: Competing Agendas	29	(5)
Desperately Seeking Solutions	34	(5)
Teacher Education, Ideology, and Napoleon	39	(5)
What's Preparation Got to Do With It?	44	(6)
What a Difference a Definition Makes: Highly Qualified Teachers, Scientific Research, and Teacher Education	50	(6)
The Research Base for Teacher Education: Metaphors We Live (and Die?) By	56	(6)
Reporting on Teacher Quality: The Politics of Politics	62	(8)
The Unforgiving Complexity of Teaching: Avoiding Simplicity in the Age of Accountability	70	(5)
Teaching Quality Matters	75	(6)
Assessing Assessment in Teacher Education	81	(9)
Teacher Education's Bermuda Triangle: Dichotomy, Mythology, and Amnesia	90	(8)
Sometimes It's Not About the Money: Teaching and Heart	98	(8)
Taking Stock in 2004: Teacher Education in Dangerous Times	106	(9)
Ask a Different Question, Get a Different Answer: The Research Base for Teacher Education	115	(9)
The Report of the Teaching Commission: What's Really at Risk?	124	(10)
The Problem of Teacher Education	134	(8)
Stayers, Leavers, Lovers, and Dreamers: Insights About Teacher Retention	142	(10)
Taking Stock in 2005: Getting Beyond the Horse Race	152	(8)
No Child Left Behind: 3 Years and Counting	160	(9)
The Politics of Teacher Education and the Curse of Complexity	169	(10)
Studying Teacher Education: What We Know and Need to Know	179	(11)
Teacher Education and the Outcomes Trap	190	(13)
Taking Stock in 2006: Evidence, Evidence Everywhere	203	(12)
Epilogue The Future of Teacher Education: Promises and Pitfalls	215	(18)
Index	233	(16)
About the Author	249