Transforming teacher education : lessons in professional development / edited by Hugh Sockett ... [et al.] ; foreword by David T. Hansen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sockett, Hugh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Training of--United States.

Teachers.

Teachers--In-service training--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Teacher professional development requires a dynamic vision of education. This work argues that teaching and teacher education are moral rather than technical or instrumental endeavours, and describes an innovative master's programme for practicing teachers founded in 1992.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Transforming Teacher Education; 2 From Educational Rhetoric to Program Reality; 3 Teacher as Citizen Professional Development and Democratic Responsibility; 4 Talking to Learn A Pedagogy Both Obvious and Obscure; 5 Teachers in School Based Teams Contesting Isolation in Schools; 6 Complexity in Morally Grounded Practice; 8 Illuminating Knowledge Three Modes of Inquiry; 9 Culture Clash Teacher and Student Identities and the Procession Toward Freedom; 10 No More Making Nice; 11 Toward a Common Goal Teachers and Immigrant Families in Dialogue

12 Sustaining the Moral Framework Tensions and Opportunities for Faculty13 The Standards of Learning One Teacher's Journey Through State Mandated Curriculum; 14 Leading a Transformative Innovation The Acceptance of Despair; Appendix; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.

ISBN:

9798216027140

9780313004032

031300403X

OCLC:

55218053