Description
Book SynopsisEducation policymakers often demonstrate surprisingly little awareness of how popular reforms impact teaching and teacher education. In this book, scholars help readers develop a more robust understanding of the nature of teacher preparation, as well as an in-depth grasp of how popular policies, practices, and ideologies have taken root.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Foreword: Teachers on the Move Janelle Scott vii
- Introduction: Teaching as a Profession in an Age of Privatization: Issues, Advocacy, and Approaches 1 T. Jameson Brewer and Christopher A. Lubienski
- Part I: Dispositions, Ideology, and Philosophy Driving Educational Reforms
- 1. Countering the Continued Corporate Assault on Schools: Endorsing Public Education, Ethical Altruism, and Critical Policy Studies 17
- Deron Boyles
- 2.Common Core Creativity: What Are Preservice Teachers Learning? 43
- Christopher H. Tienken and Dario Sforza
- 3. Toward the End of Teacher Education? edTPA as the Next Guardian Sentinel of Teacher Certification 67
- Westry Whitaker and Jim Burns
- Part II: Impacts on Teacher Preparation and the Teaching Profession
- 4. Impacting Education Through Privatized Graduate Schools: Strategic Fields, Charter Networks, and the Relay Graduate School of Education 91Jamie C. Atkinson and Brian W. Dotts
- 5. Canaries in the Classroom: The Teaching Profession in Trouble 113 Anthony Cody
- 6. Teacher Preparation in Singapore: Lessons on Neoliberalism 127
- Priya Goel La Londe and Warren Mark Liew
- 7. Teaching Toward Which Ends? Residency Candidates Navigating Competing Programmatic Aims 149
- Hilary Conklin, Lauren Gatti, and Kavita Kapadia Matsko
- 8. The Inequitable Impact of Privatization and Marketization of Initial Teacher Preparation in Chile 171
- Carmen Montecinos and M. Beatriz Fernández
- 9. Teach For America, the Education Entrepreneur Network, and the Reshaping of Teacher Preparation 189
- Kerry Kretchmar, Beth Sondel, and Joseph Ferrare
- 10. Academic Achievement of Students Taught by Teachers from Differing Preparation Programs 213
- Denise K. Whitford, Dake Zhang, and Antonis Katsiyannis<
- About the Editors and Contributors 229
- Index 231
