Seeking Integrity in Teacher Education: Transforming Student Teachers, Transforming My Self

✍ Scribed by Ann Katherine Schulte (auth.), Ann Katherine Schulte (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 141
• Series: Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 7
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. This self-study 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. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Parallel Journeys: A Story About a White Woman Who Teaches White Women to Teach Diverse Populations....Pages 1-22
The Demographics of Teaching and Teacher Education: The Need for Transformation....Pages 23-31
Searching for Purpose....Pages 33-38
Transformative Self-Studies: A Review of the Literature....Pages 39-52
Self-Study as Transformative Process....Pages 53-77
Common Challenges to Transformation....Pages 79-89
Responding to the Challenge....Pages 91-107
Critical Friends: An Exercise in Flea Biting....Pages 109-118
Back Matter....Pages 119-134

✦ Subjects

Teacher Education; Learning & Instruction