Using life-history interviews with three tenure track teacher educators, this article examines teacher socialization experiences, investigating how life histories can highlight the process of becoming faculty, noting change efforts that may lead to radical reforms, and discussing whether schools of education merely perpetuate traditional norms and…

Examines the central place of pedagogy in teacher educators' lives, discussing resulting contradictions and coherence as they struggle with current institutional contexts. A life- history narrative of a tenure track teacher educator emphasizes the importance of pedagogy. Implications for teacher educators, institutional contexts, and the…