Author : Ann Katherine Schulte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402093020
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis Seeking Integrity in Teacher Education by : Ann Katherine Schulte
Download or read book Seeking Integrity in Teacher Education written by Ann Katherine Schulte and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a teacher educator examines her practice as a way of learning about teaching as well as challenging teacher education. It is about how one teacher educator sought to transform the perspectives of her student teachers, in order to better prepare them to teach diverse populations of students, while challenging her own beliefs about how best to do that. The author seeks integrity in her practice, defined as her ability to enact what she teaches preservice teachers to do. In particular, this book is a self-study that contributes to understanding the broader question: How much can one affect and change the discourse within education when one also inhabits the characteristics that are privileged by the institution? The teacher education literature supports the need to study this type of self-reflection. Other researchers have pointed out that the role of teacher educators’ cultural identities in reforming education has been largely ignored in the literature. This book offers a unique perspective on the analogous relationship involved when a teacher educator teaches teachers how to examine the impact of their own identities on their teaching while examining that herself.