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Encouraged in large part by the work of Schon (1983), teacher education programs have spent the last two decades providing preservice teachers with experiences designed to help them examine their [...]

This essay documents a few key examples of the critical pedagogy and curriculum that we employ to challenge pre-service and in-service teachers to consider the concrete and theoretical contexts of [...]

Introduction The need to better prepare teachers for classroom realities is a goal shared by many teacher education programs. Hence, an important issue in teacher education is the need to [...]

Introduction Effective teacher education is the first step in preparing quality teachers for our schools, and ensuring strong supervision is a necessary component of the teacher education process. Providing student [...]

Models of preservice teacher education that include year-long internships require classroom teachers who serve as school-based teacher educators to 'bear a large burden for beginning teacher growth' (Bullough Jr., R. [...]

Teacher education programs that focus on preparing urban elementary school educators face a daunting task. In a relatively short time, roughly four semesters of coursework, students are prepared to be [...]

Introduction It is surprising that even though teacher educators are key agents in the transformation of the teaching profession and cope with a very complex professional context, there is limited [...]

Becoming a teacher, or joining the profession of teaching, involves a complex process in which there are numerous contributors and contributing contexts. University students who intend to become teachers in [...]

It is true that storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it, that it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are, and that we [...]

A ubiquitous national call for the reform of teacher education is of principle importance to university and college-based teacher educators. For decades, individuals such as Dewey (1965) and Barth (2001), [...]

I welcome the long list of contributors, reviewers, associate editors, and readers of Teacher Education Quarterly to join me in celebrating the work of Dr. Alan H. Jones. His tireless [...]

Alternative teacher certification program (ATCP) is widely used as a term for a variety of programs designed to train and credential teachers in expedited fashion. In practice, however, ATCPs consist [...]

This article reports the results of a case study about elementary school teachers' induction experiences. Four teachers began the three-year study, but only two remained in the profession after their [...]

Introduction As the population of the United States becomes more diverse, (Banks, 2006; Irvine, 2003) both challenges and opportunities are created for the educational system. The gap that currently exists [...]

Integrating community service with learning in the public school curriculum is not a new idea in education. The concept of service-learning has deep historical roots and there are numerous examples [...]

Introduction Over the past decade many university-based teacher education programs and school districts have forged partnerships creating restructured, collaborative programs aimed at improving teaching and learning for credential candidates (CCs), [...]