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Price, Jeremy N.; Valli, Linda – Journal of Teacher Education, 2005
This article examines the construction and experience of change agency within action research courses in preservice teacher education. Four preservice teachers' experiences of action research are analyzed, and tensions and challenges teacher educators and preservice teachers face as they attend to change processes in learning to teach are…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Organizational Change, Action Research, Preservice Teacher Education

Valli, Linda; Rennert-Ariev, Peter L. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2000
Offers a framework for identifying areas of agreement and disagreement across recent teacher education reform proposals. Reform documents were analyzed in relation to National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) recommendations. Researchers developed a rubric to assess whether and how proposals expressed agreement or disagreement…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Valli, Linda; Rennert-Ariev, Peter – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2002
Curriculum transformation was examined at seven higher education institutions in the USA that were developing "performance-based" teacher-education programmes. A heuristic was created to differentiate the contemporary performance standards-based assessment movement from its historical predecessor, competency- or performance-based teacher…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teacher Education Curriculum, Heuristics, Educational Change
Rennert-Ariev, Peter L.; Valli, Linda – 1999
This study offers a framework for identifying areas of agreement and disagreement across eight recent teacher education reform documents. Researchers analyzed each document in relation to the reform principles proposed by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF). They developed a rubric to assess whether the documents…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study

Valli, Linda – Action in Teacher Education, 1992
Four particularly troublesome problems for beginning teachers are imitation, isolation, transfer, and teaching technique. The structure of many teacher education programs contributes to such problems. The article describes the changes in the teacher education program at the Catholic University of America to overcome such problems. (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Collegiality

Price, Jeremy; Valli, Linda – Theory into Practice, 1998
Examines how institutions can provide support for diversity in preservice teacher education, focusing on the institutional context in which teacher educators work as they craft multicultural teacher preparation programs. Support includes strong institutional leadership and a campuswide vision for change, recruitment and retention of diverse…
Descriptors: College Role, Colleges, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Pluralism