- Title
- The Complexity of American Teacher Education
- Creator
- Imig, David; Imig, Scott; Neel, Michael; Holmberg-Masden, Loretta
- Relation
- The Wiley Handbook of Teaching and Learning p. 7-28
- Relation
- Wiley Handbooks in Education
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118955901.ch1
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- This chapter focuses on university “situated” teacher preparation programs—programs located in public and private colleges and universities but that rely a great deal on K-12 schools to provide clinical sites and opportunities for mentorship, observation, study, and practice. It describes five major conditions that teacher education has faced for the past decade, conditions that have resulted, or will result, in fundamental changes for all teacher preparation programs. The conditions are: an increasingly aggressive policy environment, threats to teacher professionalism, pressures to make teacher education pedagogy practice-based, the changing demographics of school-aged children, and an ever-increasing proliferation of providers. Teacher educators need the space, opportunity, and resources to experiment with new pedagogies and the use of information technologies. Above all, teacher educators need expansive research and development opportunities to direct and inform their work.
- Subject
- aggressive policy environment; American teacher education; demographic changes; deprofessionalization; private colleges; public colleges
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441496
- Identifier
- uon:41444
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781118955888
- Language
- eng
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