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

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ISBN: 9781412928120 | 1412928125
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Copyright: 1/13/2006

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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.

Foreword

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

(5)

Gambling on the Future

(5)

The Questions That Drive Reform

(5)

Learning to Teach Against the (New) Grain

(4)

Multicultural Education: Solution or Problem for American Schools?

(5)

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

(4)

Reforming Teacher Education: Competing Agendas

(5)

Desperately Seeking Solutions

(5)

Teacher Education, Ideology, and Napoleon

(5)

What's Preparation Got to Do With It?

(6)

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

(6)

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

(6)

Reporting on Teacher Quality: The Politics of Politics

(8)

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

(5)

Teaching Quality Matters

(6)

Assessing Assessment in Teacher Education

(9)

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

(8)

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

(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

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

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