Examined how teacher education influenced preservice teachers' beliefs about the roles, practices, and purposes of education. Surveys of university faculty and beginning and exiting student teachers indicated a lack of professional norms across teacher education programs regarding education's purposes. Certain types of teacher education programs…

Identifies the conceptions of energy of preservice high school biology teachers. Findings indicate that this group of preservice teachers holds alternate conceptual frameworks when describing physical situations. Contains 35 references. (DDR)

Examines who preservice teachers perceived they could and could not be in the middle school classroom as well as who their students could and could not be. Documents how these stories naturalize a way of being in the middle school classroom. Suggests that such narratives covertly authorize particular ways of seeing students. (RS)

Generates a framework of categories to describe prospective teachers' change of attitude toward teaching science over the term of a science methods course. Sources of data for the three-year study include science journal entries. Contains 36 references. (DDR)

Examines a method of mentoring preservice teachers designed to enhance their understanding of and sensitivity toward learners with disabilities. The contemporary value of inclusiveness in education was made explicit through a teaching intervention that engaged preservice teachers in learning about and meeting people with disabilities. Student…

Explores how social foundations might inform the core required educational psychology course in teacher education, describing undergraduate students' common perceptions of social foundations as required but insignificant, illustrating how this might occur in educational psychology as students are engaged in the normative and critical perspectives…

Reviewed research studies on preservice teacher preparation for multicultural schools, particularly schools serving historically underserved communities, examining the effects of such strategies as recruiting and selecting students, cross-cultural immersion experiences, multicultural coursework, and program restructuring. Very little research…

Problematizes two related aspects of educational inclusion reform and its implementation in practice: persistence of unexamined assumptions about disability and uninspired curriculum, reviewing humanities-based disability studies and describing a partnership between a secondary language arts teacher and a college professor when they cotaught a…

States that in the nineteenth century "the history of pedagogics" was adopted as a subject of instruction in teacher education resulting in a personalized and pedagogicized history with preference for ideal figures. Explains that teachers are given historical models that are meant to legitimize today's educational reforms. (CMK)

Examines the results of instruction in administering the Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) in three teacher training programs. Focuses on the examination of the scoring of the IRI in simulation exercises by preservice teachers after instruction in the administration and scoring of the IRI. Concludes that the preservice teachers did not accurately…

Offers an overview of current challenges of preparing foreign language teachers in United States schools. Discusses the growing demand for foreign language classes in elementary and middle schools; longer internships for preservice teachers; ongoing professional development; more bilingual and immersion programs; and the trend toward…

This article describes a preservice program that promotes the utilization of the creative arts to enhance the learning of young children with disabilities. It highlights the benefits of co-teaching across disciplines and the value of creativity in early childhood special education. The curriculum and the students' fieldwork are described.…

Presents research on enhancing teachers' understanding of the key role emotions play in their personal professional growth, combining narrative, autobiographical accounts of British school and college teachers with an examination of the underlying values affecting the practices of their tutors. Results reveal the effects of powerful, often…

Studied four teacher educators engaged in a cooperative self-study of their practice with regard to the use of case writing in their elementary preservice courses. Participants had similar definitions of cases. They realized that their different research agendas led to differences in their teaching practice. They valued what they learned about…

Suggests that both critical thinking and obstacles to successful critical thinking are most commonly found in the activities of everyday life. Argues for a connective criticism approach that does not assume critical means adversarial and acknowledges that critical thinking can be used as a means of opening worlds of meaning. (KS)