Issues in Teacher Education articles from March 2007

Issues in Teacher Education archives from March 2007

Editor's introduction.
March 22, 2007... Although this number of Issues in Teacher Education was not conceptualized as a theme issue, a theme clearly emerged from the manuscripts accepted. Each of the articles looks at a course or methodology for use in preservice and/or inservice...

First year teachers and diversity: teacher research through photography.(Report)
March 22, 2007... The moments of any experience can only be understood through the voice that has lived them. Traditional methods of inquiry, in which hypotheses are posed and statistical data is collected and analyzed, are often used to validate conclusions...

A necessary holocaust pedagogy: teaching the teachers.
March 22, 2007... You have elected to study the history of the Holocaust. The subject matter you will investigate will make some extraordinary demands of you. The facts, even when told without embellishments in bare-boned words, will pull you into a world of...

Promoting family-centered teaching: can one course make a difference?(Report)
March 22, 2007... It is critical that families be included as partners in all aspects of the educational process inasmuch as parents and families provide the primary learning environment for children of all ages (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Dunst, 1985; Finkelstein,...

A classroom discipline plan that teaches democracy.(Report)
March 22, 2007... This article has two purposes. It presents a classroom management model that both works and teaches democracy by having students use the democratic process to create their learning environments; and it presents the model's impact upon the...

The Trouble with Ed Schools.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... The Trouble with Ed Schools By David F. Labaree New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004 Professors of education, when gathered at faculty meetings or professional conferences, often strongly agree on issues such as the No Child Left...

Educating School Teachers.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Book Review Educating School Teachers By Arthur Levine New York: The Education Schools Project, 2006 No one really likes bad news, but Arthur Levine's bold and compelling policy report, Educating School Teachers, is a must-read for anyone...

Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy of Social Justice.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2007... Book Review Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy of Social Justice By Eric Gutstein New York: Routledge, 2006 What happens when the focus of mathematics education in the classroom changes from an alleged values...