Recently added articles from Journal of Teacher Education:
Searching for vitality in teacher education.(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2009; ... The hopes and dreams for our shared JTE editorship began 6 years ago over three bowls of tortilla soup. During that lunchtime meeting, through deliberation and debate, we formed our editorial vision statement. Scanning the professional horizon in fall 2003, we characterized the teacher ...
Back to the future: how and why to revive the teachers college tradition.(Theme Articles)
Nov 01, 2009; ... I approach these matters somewhat differently from many, I suspect. I write from the perspective of someone who is part teacher educator, part educational historian, and part curriculum philosopher. I do my best to contribute to all of these fields, while at the same time remaining firmly ...
Revitalizing teacher education by revisiting our assumptions about teaching.(Theme Articles)(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Revitalizing teacher education is best tackled as part of the effort to reimagine and reshape teaching for the realities of 21st-century schooling. The state of teaching and teacher education is the result of more than a century of compromises and adjustments demanded by the exigencies of ...
"Re-culturing" teacher education: inquiry, evidence, and action.(Theme Articles)(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Over the past decade in the United States and a number of other nations, the evidence-based education movement, which holds that decisions about practice and policy should be made on the basis of empirical evidence about outcomes, has gained a firm foothold (Moss 2007; Trinder 2000). At ...
A pluralistic approach to the revitalization of teacher education.(Theme Articles)(Report)
Nov 01, 2009; ... Teacher education, as a field, has been proclaimed to be in crisis (Grossman, 2008). In her depiction of this crisis, Grossman describes how university-based teacher education, once the gold standard for entry into a teaching career, is being questioned over its relevance, doubted as to ...