The attempt to understand the relationship between messages intended and messages received has been an enduring issue in teacher education. For the past three decades researchers have made forays into understanding this enduring issue, and in the process have drawn on various explanatory frameworks, one of them being socialisation. In this paper…

Teacher educators are increasingly experiencing conflicts between external demands and their ideas about preparing students to teach. This paper reports on ways in which such educators promote learning in their students, and how their practical teaching methods relate to their professional views on teaching. This paper argues that the teaching…

A Northern Kentucky University professor questions the relevance and effectiveness of a required fundamentals of secondary education methods course, and discusses his counteroffensive, which combines lecture, field experience, and post-experience reflection on methods to meet state certification standards. (CB)

Expresses concern over the unproblematic acceptance of authoritative educational discourses by educators, describes one educator's efforts to engage teachers in problematizing of a particularly authoritative educational discourse (classroom management) in colleges of education, and highlights a graduate course that engaged teachers in exploring…

A documentary on the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry shows how educators challenged social inequality, offering an overview relevant to teacher and administrator preparation programs. The article examines issues of participation, transformation, and political consciousness as related to the documentary, discussing educational…

Describes a college course entitled "Race and Education" offered to students from all departments, most of whom are white. The course teaches students to think reflectively and analytically about the nature and impact of racism, examining educational institutions and their own educational experiences as the vehicle. (SM)

In 1930, Japanese philosopher Tsunesaburo Makiguchi stated that happiness was education's main goal. The paper examines Makiguchi's work as relevant to the American educational system and teacher education. Makiguchi cautioned that children's inherent love of learning could be extinguished by systems that force-fed students information in order to…

This annotated bibliography contains 63 references to literature on the subject of teaching on the cutting edge. Topics include preservice teacher education, politics of education, educational technology, college-school relationships, school reform, diversity, and feminism. (SM)

Two university educators use reflective dialogue to discuss processes they went through in understanding the political nature and assumptions of their own pedagogical practices as they searched for methods which would promote teacher empowerment and actively involve students in shaping course curriculum for a language arts class they team taught.…

This annotated guide provides 54 references to materials on international trends in teacher education, including such subjects as educational change, educational technology, literacy instruction, educational quality, global perspectives, teacher recruitment, developing nations, multicultural education, policy development, women's education, and…

Describes an Australian undergraduate teacher education program, "Issues in Cross Cultural Education." Designed to respond to the demands of Australia as a pluralist, multicultural society, it examines the ways in which the racial and ethnic minority presence has shaped and transformed the minority culture. (SM)

Teacher educator discusses challenges in preparing teachers for diverse student populations. She remembers being the only African American in one seventh grade class. It was the only public school experience in which she forgot her differences because the teacher taught to benefit all students, forever influencing her educational beliefs. (SM)

Dialogue journals written by middle school students and preservice teacher education students provide an opportunity for the preservice teachers to learn about the intellectual, social, physical, and emotional development of middle school students and how these aspects of the students' lives affect learning. (IAH)

Although most students view science through a positive lens they often have difficulty connecting the science that they study in school with the practice of science in general, and their personal experience with science in their everyday lives. In an attempt to mediate "school science" with a more authentic view of science a contextual model is…

Teacher trainers/educators (the two terms will be used interchangeably) at the pre-service level are important agents and influential raw models for their trainee teachers. They can contribute positively to the student teacher's socialization process via the progressive training modes they adopt, the informed decisions they make, the critical…