Recently added articles from Teacher Education Quarterly:
Introducing teacher identity and this volume.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Real knowledge comes from those in whom it lives. --John Henry Newman Watching a television show recently, I heard a character say, "DNA is what we are; identity is who we are." That's an interesting line--one I'm not sure I accept but one that raises salient ...
Uncovering paths to teaching: teacher identity and the cultural arts of memory.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Audacity had liberated them. They were pioneers, though they never walked an American plain and never felt real soil beneath their feet. They moved in a sadder wilderness, where the language was strange, where their children became members of a different race. It was a price that must be ...
How reasons for entry into the profession illuminate teacher identity development.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... <Pre>That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered stars into space .... Yet if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all other seasons, And let ...
Becoming a professional: experimenting with possible selves in professional preparation.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Introduction Entering professional practice requires that novices construct identities that fit into that world; part of the role of professional education is to help novices craft these professional identities. During the transitional time represented by professional education, ...
Developing practices in multiple worlds: the role of identity in learning to teach.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Recently, researchers and policymakers have begun to question the role of professional education in learning to teach. This inquiry reflects skepticism about the contributions of teacher education, which is, in turn, fueled by popular ideas about the work of teaching: teachers are born not ...
Student teachers negotiating identity, role, and agency.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... <Pre>Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offence.Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That wants it down.--Robert Frost </Pre> Learning how to teach depends on the dynamic ...
Bridging worlds: changes in personal and professional identities of pre-service urban teachers.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... This article explores the motives and evolving identities of one group of graduate students enrolled in a teacher education program at an Ivy League university, who made the choice to teach in urban classrooms. We examine the perspectives these candidates give to the process of learning to ...
"What else would I be doing?": teacher identity and teacher retention in urban schools.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Our nation's urban public schools and their students are in dire need of a durable and committed corps of teachers, teachers who are willing to stay in education long enough to make a difference in the conditions of those schools, and most importantly, in student achievement. Many ...
Transforming identities: understanding teachers across professional development and classroom practice.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... Despite the prevalence of professional development in schools and the variability in its implementation, little research has been conducted on how professional development makes its way into the classroom (Wilson & Berne, 1999). Even when teachers participate in high-quality professional ...
Actualizing democracy: the praxis of teacher identity construction.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... In the quest for democratic, rigorous and engaged classrooms, one of the main goals for some teacher educators is to connect teachers to the communities in which they work in order to be more conscious of the realities and identities of their students (McDermott, 1998). This quest is often ...
Editor's introduction: research startegies and professional development.
Mar 22, 2008; ... This Spring 2008 issue opens with a special contribution by one of our International Advisory Board members, Ivor Goodson, and his colleague Pik Lin Choi, "Life History and Collective Memory as Methodological Strategies: Studying Teacher Professionalism," a follow up to his "The Rise of ...
Life history and collective memory as methodological strategies: studying teacher professionalism.(Company overview)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The life history method, which achieved a prominent position in the Chicago tradition of sociological research in the early 1920s, has been widely adopted for educational inquiries since the 1980s (Casey, 1995). Ball and Goodson (1985) pioneered a series of studies on teachers' ...
Letters to a new teacher: a curriculum of embodied aesthetic awareness.
Mar 22, 2008; ... In the following letters to a new teacher, a university mentor shares her reflexive notions of how she lives as a teacher researcher. (1) September 21 Dear Chris, I hope this letter finds you well. I'm glad we've been partnered. I enjoyed our phone ...
Personality characteristics and teacher beliefs among pre-service teachers.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Teacher education is at a cross-road. Public interest in school reform has increased and teacher education has been rediscovered as a "problem" in policy circles (Cochran-Smith, 2005). With this heightened visibility there exists a press, on the national level, for evidence and answers ...
Voices: student teachers link teacher education to perceptions of prepardness for literacy teaching.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Literature and the learning of language are such social events. That's why I like literature circles because they provide opportunities for students to do so much work together, such as writing stories where they brainstorm together. This whole theory is that they learn together and they ...
Canaries in the coal mine: urban rookies learning to teach language arts in "High Priority" schools.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... You know, we're really just canaries in the coal mine for the whole No Child Left Behind experiment. (Rob, second-year teacher) Negotiating Teaching Rob, like many new teachers in urban settings, understands that the ways in which he is required to teach stem from ...
Using case studies to explore teacher candidates' intellectual, cultural, and moral dispositions.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... I saw the factories where some of my students and many of their parents work ... [a few] families fell on bad times economically and were forced out of their homes because they could not pay their rent. These families went to live in one of the area motels. I learned a lot about the ...
Factors associated with teachers' attitudes about professional development.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Ongoing educational reform initiatives have ushered in significant changes in teacher-certification regulations. Many states no longer offer permanent certification, but instead require teachers to participate in career-long professional development (PD). In New York State, for example, ...
An investigation of the impacts of teacher-driven professional development on pedagogy and student learning.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Introduction In 1998, Linda Darling Hammond argued that "teacher quality is the factor that matters most for student learning." This dictum was reiterated by Geringer (2003) who not only affirmed that a good teacher is a crucial factor in student learning, but stated that ...
Teaching development--experience and philosophy (using the three Rs).(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Introduction This article attempts to synthesize teachers' conceptions-of-teaching and integrate them into a structure for professional development. It presents one route by which a teacher might become more expert at the practice of teaching. Various conceptions-of-teaching ...