Some Proposals

Christopher J. Lucas

Chapter 7 in Teacher Education in America, 1999, pp 249-291 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The claim that people aspiring to become elementary or secondary classroom instructors need formal preparation for their work, it is abundantly apparent, has yet to win universal acceptance at the close of the twentieth century. Every so often, an editorialist or a self-styled critic brandishing a book with an inflammatory title such as The Collapse of American Education, How Our Schools Are Failing and Why the Crisis Is Worsening will attract wide attention by rehearsing the claim that teacher education is bankrupt. Instructional acts are natural occurrences in the repertoire of human behaviors, runs the argument; and there were teachers long before someone seized upon the curious notion they needed to be trained in order to exercise abilities they—and practically everyone else—already possess.1

Keywords: Teacher Education; Prospective Teacher; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Teacher Training; Teacher Education Program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-07269-6_7

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