Imagining a renaissance in teacher education

Other Authors: Craig, Cheryl J., Deretchin, Louise F., Association of Teacher Educators.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Lanham, MD ; Toronto ; Plymouth, UK : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2008]
Physical Description: xviii, 441 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: Teacher education yearbook ; 16.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Division 1: The Root of Renaissance
  • Overview and framework
  • Schwab's call for a renaissance: a teacher education perspective
  • Preparing urban educators for the twenty-first century: what the research suggests
  • Summary and implications
  • Division 2: Shifting Perspectives and Practices
  • Overview and framework
  • Daring to care: adding caring to our vision of teacher education
  • Spiritual voices of preservice teachers
  • Teachers' thoughts about the rewards and joys of teaching: a neglected component in teacher education programs
  • Educating for inquiry through a reflective portfolio process: what are the imperatives for teachers or students to think well in contexts?
  • The wisdom of fifth graders: a voice in the Renaissance
  • Star Tech: the Net Generation!
  • Summary and implications
  • Division 3: Altering content
  • Overview and framework
  • The reimagination of a graduate reading program: roles and responsibilities, themes, reflections, and implications
  • Preservice teachers' beliefs about curriculum theory: is it meaningful and/or useful?
  • Professionalism vs. Reality: student awareness of legal rights and responsibilities
  • Student teachers' diversity rights: the case law
  • Summary and implications
  • Division 4: Problematic conditions
  • Overview and framework
  • Preservice teachers leading the way: improving field experiences by cultivating candidates' voice and agency
  • Fence sitting: preservice teachers' agreement with tenets of economic responsibilities and social justice
  • The categories that bind: connecting teacher education to teaching practice
  • Encountering relational complexity: on "the arts of the practical" in learning to teach
  • Summary and implications
  • Division 5: Renaissance in action
  • Overview and framework
  • Calling for a renaissance of care
  • Small steps: moving toward a renaissance in teacher education
  • A renaissance of the arts in classrooms: a collaboration between a college, a public school, and an arts institution
  • Cultivating parent-child collaboration concerning mathematical learning: a necessary objective for teacher preparation programs
  • Minimizing barriers in teacher diversity professional development
  • Valuing narrative authority, collaboration, and diversity in revitalizing a teacher education program
  • Summary and implications
  • Division 6: Lessons learned
  • Overview and framework
  • Teacher education that makes a difference: developing foundational principles of practice
  • Questioning what we know about teacher education
  • Summary and implications
  • Afterword.