Seeking integrity in teacher education: transforming student teachers, transforming my self

In this book, a teacher educator examines her practice as a way of learning about teaching as well as challenging teacher education. It is about how one teacher educator sought to transform the perspectives of her student teachers, in order to better prepare them to teach diverse populations of students, whilechallenging her own beliefs about how best to do that. The author seeks integrity in her practice, defined as her ability to enact what she teaches preservice teachers to do. In particular, this book is a self-study that contributes to understanding the broader question: How much can one affect and change the discourse within education when one also inhabits the characteristics that areprivileged by the institution? The teacher education literature supports the need to study this type of self-reflection. Other researchers have pointed outthat the role of teacher educators’ cultural identities in reforming education has been largely ignored in the literature. Offers a unique perspective on the symmetrical relationship involved with teaching teachers how to teach whilechallenging the very context in which that occurs INDICE: From the contents Foreword by K. Zeichner. 1. Parallel Journeys: AStory about a White Woman Who Teaches White Women to Teach Diverse Populations. 2. The Demographics of Teaching and Teacher Education: The Need for Transformation. 3. Searching for Purpose. 4. Transformative Self-studies: A Review ofthe Literature. 5. Self-study as Transformative Process. 6. Common Challengesto Transformation. 7. Responding to the Challenge. 8. Co-authored with V. Stenhouse. Critical Friends: An Exercise in Flea Biting. What are the biggest challenges to preparing teachers for diversity? Afterword. References. Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9301-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 140
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés