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Who's Qualified? Seeing Race in Color-Blind Times: Lessons from Fisher v. University of Texas
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Donnor, Jamel K. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Using Howard Winant's racial dualism theory, this chapter explains how race was discursively operationalized in the recent U.S. Supreme Court higher education antiracial diversity case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Race, Social Attitudes, Social Theories
What Is a Culture of Evidence? How Do You Get One? And... Should You Want One?
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Peck, Charles A.; McDonald, Morva A. – Teachers College Record, 2014
Background/Context: Contemporary state and national policy rhetoric reflects increased press for "evidence-based" decision making within programs of teacher education, including admonitions that programs develop a "culture of evidence" in making decisions regarding policy and practice. Recent case study reports suggest that…
Descriptors: Evidence, Decision Making, Teacher Education, Case Studies
Making Learning the Object: Using Cultural Historical Activity Theory to Analyze and Organize Student Teaching in Urban High-Needs Schools
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Anderson, Lauren; Stillman, Jamy – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background/Context: Student teaching represents a critical component of most teacher education programs. However, there is significant variation both in the contextual factors that preservice teachers (PSTs) encounter in their field placements and in the ways that teacher educators mediate PSTs' learning in relation to those placements. In…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Urban Teaching, Disadvantaged Schools, Urban Schools