Sociocultural influences and teacher education programs

In this volume we describe exemplary programs in teacher education that attempt to address some of the issues alluded to above. Our authors address theoretical perspectives on the importance of teacher education for improving educational outcomes; the achievement gap between different groups and in...

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Main Authors McInerney, Dennis M. (Author), Etten, Shawn Van (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2003.
SeriesResearch on sociocultural influences on motivation and learning.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918117332
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-512-7
Physical Description1 online resource (272 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Can teacher education close the achievement gap / Martin Haberman
  • Chapter 2. Practice matters: Reflections on the importance of teacher educator's practice / Jennifer Whitcomb
  • Chapter 3. Standards in American Indian/alaska native education: Preparing native and non-native teachers for variable contexts / Denis Viri
  • Chapter 4. Partnership in teacher education: Changing panaceas and predicaments / Elwyn Thomas
  • Chapter 5. Hopi teachers for hopi schools: Collaborating to seed educational change / Carolyne J. White, Diane Nuvayouma, and Harvey Paymella
  • Chapter 6. Making teaching cultures visible: The value of comparative research / Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
  • Chapter 7. Training jewish and arab school counselors in Israel: Exploring a professional identity in a conflicted society / Hanoch Flum & Avi Kaplan, Ben Gurion
  • Chapter 8. Shaping a glad tomorrow: Mandatory indigenous studies teacher education courses (as) an international educational priority / Rhonda G. Craven
  • Chapter 9. Self-regulated learning and the use of information and communications technology in norwegian teacher education / Ivar Bråten, Helge I. Strømsø, & Bodil S. Olaussen
  • Chapter 10. Teacher development through communities of learning / Richard Walker.