Research Catalog

Title

Teacher education in America : reform agendas for the twenty-first century / Christopher J. Lucas.

Author

Lucas, Christopher J.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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Details

Description

xv, 336 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Teacher Education in America includes an illuminating account of the history of teacher education in the United States and provides a thought-provoking analysis of the major issues and problems surrounding teacher preparation. Christopher Lucas reveals the traditional four-year undergraduate programs - as well as the short-term "alternative" teacher certification routes - to be largely insufficient to the needs of teachers entering the nation's schools. In addition, he studies and critiques the so-called field-based models that have been touted as the wave of the future. Concluding with a thoughtful assessment of what may lie ahead, Lucas offers a challenging and provocative new direction for teacher education reform for the twenty-first century.

Subject

• Teachers > Training of > United States
• Educational change > United States
• Educational change
• Teachers > Training of
• Lehrerbildung
• Unterrichtsreform
• Leerkrachten
• Beroepspraktijk
• Scholing
• Teachers > Training > United States
• Lehrerbildung
• Unterrichtsreform
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-329) and index.

Contents

1. Origins and Development of Teacher Education in America -- 2. Teacher Preparation in the Twentieth Century -- 3. Issues Old and New -- 4. Structural Alternatives -- 5. Accreditation and Certification Standards -- 6. What Experienced Teachers Recommend: A Survey and Analysis -- 7. Some Proposals.

ISBN

• 0312164440
• 9780312164447
• 0312224540
• 9780312224547

LCCN

96035421

OCLC

• ocm35223142
• 35223142
• SCSB-2122915

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library