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Currents of Reform in Preservice Teacher Education
Ken Zeichner, Susan Melnick, and Mary Louise Gomez, Editors
Pub Date: 1996, 256 pages
Paperback: $22.95, ISBN: 0807734292
Cloth: $48, ISBN: 0807734306
 
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"Contribute(s) considerably and provocatively to our understanding of the teacher education enterprise."
–Teaching and Teacher Education
In the last decade, teacher education reform in the United States has received more attention than at any other time in history. As the roles of teachers, students, and administrators shift to accommodate societal changes, reforms must be implemented to keep professional standards high and reflective of the current agendas within school settings.
This book provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the efforts to improve the education of preservice teachers. The book is broken down into three parts: Part I, Regulation and Standards in Teacher Education; Part II, Preparing Teachers for Cultural Diversity; and Part III, Promoting Reflective Practice in Teacher Education. Within each section, the contributors to this volume show how good intentions can be subverted by ignoring the contexts of policy; provide an historical context to the debate; and examine how universities and schools affect and are affected by specific reforms.
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