Policy, Practice, and Politics in Teacher Education
Editorials From the Journal of Teacher Education
Marilyn Cochran-Smith
- Boston College, USA
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"Marilyn Cochran-Smith's keen insights about the politics and substance of teacher education reform focus like a laser on the central issues of educational equity and quality in our time. Anyone who wants to understand what's happening to teaching in this country, and what's at stake, should read this book."
—Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education
Stanford University
"Marilyn Cochran-Smith is one of the strongest voices in teacher education today. By weighing the evidence, challenging orthodoxy, and analyzing the policies, she has given teacher education a firm footing in the scholarly canon. Her leadership is vital to the field's viability."
—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Access the insight and wisdom of one of today's leading educational scholars in one concise volume!
When it comes to determining the best approach to teacher preparation, today's teachers, teacher educators, and school leaders face an overwhelmingly contentious environment. Through her influential essays in the Journal of Teacher Education, however, Marilyn Cochran-Smith has consistently provided educators with a distinguished voice of reason, advocacy, inspiration, and social justice. This powerful text organizes all of her editorials for the first time into one concise volume, making this an essential guide to teacher preparation at its best.
—Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education
Stanford University
"Marilyn Cochran-Smith is one of the strongest voices in teacher education today. By weighing the evidence, challenging orthodoxy, and analyzing the policies, she has given teacher education a firm footing in the scholarly canon. Her leadership is vital to the field's viability."
—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Access the insight and wisdom of one of today's leading educational scholars in one concise volume!
When it comes to determining the best approach to teacher preparation, today's teachers, teacher educators, and school leaders face an overwhelmingly contentious environment. Through her influential essays in the Journal of Teacher Education, however, Marilyn Cochran-Smith has consistently provided educators with a distinguished voice of reason, advocacy, inspiration, and social justice. This powerful text organizes all of her editorials for the first time into one concise volume, making this an essential guide to teacher preparation at its best.
Contents
Foreword by John I. Goodlad
Foreword by John I. Goodlad
Preface and Acknowledgments
Preface and Acknowledgments
Prologue: Policy, Practice, and Politics: Taking Stock of the Field
- 1 Teacher Education at the Turn of the Century
- 2 Gambling on the Future
- 3 The Questions That Drive Reform
- 4 Learning to Teach Against the (New) Grain
- 5 Multicultural Education: Solution or Problem for American Schools?
- 6 Higher Standards for Prospective Teachers: What’s Missing From the Discourse?
- 7 Reforming Teacher Education: Competing Agendas
- 8 Desperately Seeking Solutions
- 9 Teacher Education, Ideology, and Napoleon
- 10 What’s Preparation Got to Do With It?
- 11 What a Difference a Definition Makes: Highly Qualified Teachers, Scientific Research, and Teacher Education
- 12 The Research Base for Teacher Education: Metaphors We Live (And Die?) By
- 13 Reporting on Teacher Quality: The Politics of Politics
- 14 The Unforgiving Complexity of Teaching: Avoiding Simplicity in the Age of Accountability
- 15 Teaching Quality Matters
- 16 Assessing Assessment in Teacher Education
- 17 Teacher Education’s Bermuda Triangle: Dichotomy, Mythology, and Amnesia
- 18 Sometimes It’s Not About The Money: Teaching and Heart
- 19 Taking Stock in 2004: Teacher Education in Dangerous Times
- 20 Ask a Different Question, Get a Different Answer: The Research Base for Teacher Education
- 21 The Report of the Teaching Commission: What’s Really at Risk?
- 22 The Problem of Teacher Education
- 23 Stayers, Leavers, Lovers, and Dreamers: Insights About Teacher Retention
- 24 Taking Stock in 2005: Getting Beyond the Horse Race
- 25 No Child Left Behind: 3 Years and Counting
- 26 The Politics of Teacher Education and the Curse of Complexity
- 27 Studying Teacher Education: What We Know and Need to Know
- 28 Teacher Education and the Outcomes Trap
- 29 Taking Stock in 2006: Evidence, Evidence Everywhere
Epilogue: The Future of Teacher Education: Promises and Pitfalls
Epilogue: The Future of Teacher Education: Promises and Pitfalls
Index
Index
About the Author
About the Author
Description
"Marilyn Cochran-Smith's keen insights about the politics and substance of teacher education reform focus like a laser on the central issues of educational equity and quality in our time. Anyone who wants to understand what's happening to teaching in this country, and what's at stake, should read this book."
—Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education
Stanford University
"Marilyn Cochran-Smith is one of the strongest voices in teacher education today. By weighing the evidence, challenging orthodoxy, and analyzing the policies, she has given teacher education a firm footing in the scholarly canon. Her leadership is vital to the field's viability."
—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Access the insight and wisdom of one of today's leading educational scholars in one concise volume!
When it comes to determining the best approach to teacher preparation, today's teachers, teacher educators, and school leaders face an overwhelmingly contentious environment. Through her influential essays in the Journal of Teacher Education, however, Marilyn Cochran-Smith has consistently provided educators with a distinguished voice of reason, advocacy, inspiration, and social justice. This powerful text organizes all of her editorials for the first time into one concise volume, making this an essential guide to teacher preparation at its best.
—Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education
Stanford University
"Marilyn Cochran-Smith is one of the strongest voices in teacher education today. By weighing the evidence, challenging orthodoxy, and analyzing the policies, she has given teacher education a firm footing in the scholarly canon. Her leadership is vital to the field's viability."
—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Access the insight and wisdom of one of today's leading educational scholars in one concise volume!
When it comes to determining the best approach to teacher preparation, today's teachers, teacher educators, and school leaders face an overwhelmingly contentious environment. Through her influential essays in the Journal of Teacher Education, however, Marilyn Cochran-Smith has consistently provided educators with a distinguished voice of reason, advocacy, inspiration, and social justice. This powerful text organizes all of her editorials for the first time into one concise volume, making this an essential guide to teacher preparation at its best.
Contents
Foreword by John I. Goodlad
Foreword by John I. Goodlad
Preface and Acknowledgments
Preface and Acknowledgments
Prologue: Policy, Practice, and Politics: Taking Stock of the Field
- 1 Teacher Education at the Turn of the Century
- 2 Gambling on the Future
- 3 The Questions That Drive Reform
- 4 Learning to Teach Against the (New) Grain
- 5 Multicultural Education: Solution or Problem for American Schools?
- 6 Higher Standards for Prospective Teachers: What’s Missing From the Discourse?
- 7 Reforming Teacher Education: Competing Agendas
- 8 Desperately Seeking Solutions
- 9 Teacher Education, Ideology, and Napoleon
- 10 What’s Preparation Got to Do With It?
- 11 What a Difference a Definition Makes: Highly Qualified Teachers, Scientific Research, and Teacher Education
- 12 The Research Base for Teacher Education: Metaphors We Live (And Die?) By
- 13 Reporting on Teacher Quality: The Politics of Politics
- 14 The Unforgiving Complexity of Teaching: Avoiding Simplicity in the Age of Accountability
- 15 Teaching Quality Matters
- 16 Assessing Assessment in Teacher Education
- 17 Teacher Education’s Bermuda Triangle: Dichotomy, Mythology, and Amnesia
- 18 Sometimes It’s Not About The Money: Teaching and Heart
- 19 Taking Stock in 2004: Teacher Education in Dangerous Times
- 20 Ask a Different Question, Get a Different Answer: The Research Base for Teacher Education
- 21 The Report of the Teaching Commission: What’s Really at Risk?
- 22 The Problem of Teacher Education
- 23 Stayers, Leavers, Lovers, and Dreamers: Insights About Teacher Retention
- 24 Taking Stock in 2005: Getting Beyond the Horse Race
- 25 No Child Left Behind: 3 Years and Counting
- 26 The Politics of Teacher Education and the Curse of Complexity
- 27 Studying Teacher Education: What We Know and Need to Know
- 28 Teacher Education and the Outcomes Trap
- 29 Taking Stock in 2006: Evidence, Evidence Everywhere
Epilogue: The Future of Teacher Education: Promises and Pitfalls
Epilogue: The Future of Teacher Education: Promises and Pitfalls
Index
Index
About the Author
About the Author
Reviews
Policy, Practice, and Politics in Teacher Education
Editorials From the Journal of Teacher Education
January 2006 | 304 pages | Corwin
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| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412928120 | $42.95 |
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"Marilyn Cochran-Smith's keen insights about the politics and substance of teacher education reform focus like a laser on the central issues of educational equity and quality in our time. Anyone who wants to understand what's happening to teaching in this country, and what's at stake, should read this book."
—Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education
Stanford University
"Marilyn Cochran-Smith is one of the strongest voices in teacher education today. By weighing the evidence, challenging orthodoxy, and analyzing the policies, she has given teacher education a firm footing in the scholarly canon. Her leadership is vital to the field's viability."
—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Access the insight and wisdom of one of today's leading educational scholars in one concise volume!
When it comes to determining the best approach to teacher preparation, today's teachers, teacher educators, and school leaders face an overwhelmingly contentious environment. Through her influential essays in the Journal of Teacher Education, however, Marilyn Cochran-Smith has consistently provided educators with a distinguished voice of reason, advocacy, inspiration, and social justice. This powerful text organizes all of her editorials for the first time into one concise volume, making this an essential guide to teacher preparation at its best.
—Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education
Stanford University
"Marilyn Cochran-Smith is one of the strongest voices in teacher education today. By weighing the evidence, challenging orthodoxy, and analyzing the policies, she has given teacher education a firm footing in the scholarly canon. Her leadership is vital to the field's viability."
—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Access the insight and wisdom of one of today's leading educational scholars in one concise volume!
When it comes to determining the best approach to teacher preparation, today's teachers, teacher educators, and school leaders face an overwhelmingly contentious environment. Through her influential essays in the Journal of Teacher Education, however, Marilyn Cochran-Smith has consistently provided educators with a distinguished voice of reason, advocacy, inspiration, and social justice. This powerful text organizes all of her editorials for the first time into one concise volume, making this an essential guide to teacher preparation at its best.
Table Of Contents:
- Foreword by John I. Goodlad
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Policy, Practice, and Politics: Taking Stock of the Field
- 1 Teacher Education at the Turn of the Century
- 2 Gambling on the Future
- 3 The Questions That Drive Reform
- 4 Learning to Teach Against the (New) Grain
- 5 Multicultural Education: Solution or Problem for American Schools?
- 6 Higher Standards for Prospective Teachers: What’s Missing From the Discourse?
- 7 Reforming Teacher Education: Competing Agendas
- 8 Desperately Seeking Solutions
- 9 Teacher Education, Ideology, and Napoleon
- 10 What’s Preparation Got to Do With It?
- 11 What a Difference a Definition Makes: Highly Qualified Teachers, Scientific Research, and Teacher Education
- 12 The Research Base for Teacher Education: Metaphors We Live (And Die?) By
- 13 Reporting on Teacher Quality: The Politics of Politics
- 14 The Unforgiving Complexity of Teaching: Avoiding Simplicity in the Age of Accountability
- 15 Teaching Quality Matters
- 16 Assessing Assessment in Teacher Education
- 17 Teacher Education’s Bermuda Triangle: Dichotomy, Mythology, and Amnesia
- 18 Sometimes It’s Not About The Money: Teaching and Heart
- 19 Taking Stock in 2004: Teacher Education in Dangerous Times
- 20 Ask a Different Question, Get a Different Answer: The Research Base for Teacher Education
- 21 The Report of the Teaching Commission: What’s Really at Risk?
- 22 The Problem of Teacher Education
- 23 Stayers, Leavers, Lovers, and Dreamers: Insights About Teacher Retention
- 24 Taking Stock in 2005: Getting Beyond the Horse Race
- 25 No Child Left Behind: 3 Years and Counting
- 26 The Politics of Teacher Education and the Curse of Complexity
- 27 Studying Teacher Education: What We Know and Need to Know
- 28 Teacher Education and the Outcomes Trap
- 29 Taking Stock in 2006: Evidence, Evidence Everywhere
- Epilogue: The Future of Teacher Education: Promises and Pitfalls
- Index
- About the Author
Recent Product Reviews:
"Relevant to teachers, policymakers, school board members, and anyone who cares about our schools and their public purpose. . . A book of Marilyn Cochran-Smith’s thirty thoughtful editorials deserves attention both within and beyond the professional teacher education community."
From the Foreword by John I. Goodlad
"Marilyn Cochran-Smith is one of the strongest voices in teacher education today. By weighing the evidence, challenging orthodoxy, and analyzing the policies, she has given teacher education a firm footing in the scholarly canon. Her leadership is vital to the field’s viability."
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"During her tenure as editor of the Journal of Teacher Education, Marilyn Cochran-Smith used her editorials to provoke our thinking anew about so many important education research issues, ranging from pedagogy to politics. It is to her credit, and our good fortune, that we get to revisit her perspective through this collection of her work."
Sharon Robinson, President and CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
"Marilyn Cochran-Smith’s keen insights about the politics and substance of teacher education reform focus like a laser on the central issues of educational equity and quality in our time. Anyone who wants to understand what’s happening to teaching in this country and what’s at stake should read this book."
Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University