Dialogue and Difference in a Teacher Education Program
A 16-Year Sociocultural Study of a Professional Development School
By:
Marilyn Johnston-Parsons, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- eBook
- ISBN: 978-1-61735-767-1
In Press 2012
This book is a case study of a teacher education reform initiative. We—teachers in schools and a university—write together about our attempts to reform our teacher education program. We use both narrative and systematic studies to analyze in detail our reform initiatives—the changes we designed, the complex demands and learning that occurred over time, and the ongoing research and program evaluation that informed our decision making.
The chapters of this book are written to be somewhat free standing. Each chapter concludes with a summary of what we learned and a list of discussion questions to tie our work to bigger issues and to encourage further dialogue.
CONTENTS
Foreword, Jim Nolan, Jr. Preface. 1. About the Program: A Case Study of Teacher Education Reform, Marilyn Johnston-Parsons and Michael Thomas. 2. About the Research and Program Evaluation: Section 1: Research Happening Everywhere, Marilyn Johnston-Parsons. 3. About Theorizing our Practice: School/University Collaboration: A Sociocultural Perspective, Marilyn Johnston-Parsons. 4. About the Mentoring and Professional Development: Planning for the Interns, Mentor Teachers and Marilyn Johnston-Parsons. 5. About the University Teacher Education Reforms: Teaching the University Methods Courses: Building a Collaborative Culture, Marilyn Johnston-Parsons, Stephen Pape, Carrie Scheckelhoff, and Mike Thomas. 6. About the Doctoral Students: Boundary Spanners, The Doctoral Students With Marilyn Johnston-Parsons and Michael Thomas. Learning From Our PDS Experience, Mary Kathleen Barnes, Alberto Lopez-Carrasquillo, Mary Christenson, Denise Dallmer, Terrance Hubbard, Young Ah Lee, and Jennifer Dyer Sennette. 7. About the MEd Interns: Section One: Learning to Teach in Urban Schools: The Influence of the MEd Program, Learning to Teach in Urban Schools: The Influence of the MEd Program, Chien-Ni Chang, Marcie Hatfield, Elissa Mazer, and Olympia Coles Williams. 8. About the Quantitative Research Findings: What We Learned From the Postoprogram Survey, Stephen J. Pape, Chien-Ni Chang, and Marilyn Johnston-Parsons. 9. About the Qualitative Research Findings: What We Learned From Interviews With the Graduates, Jong-Hyun Lee, Chien-Ni Chang, and Marilyn Johnston-Parsons. 10. About Our Learning. Appendixes. About the Authors.
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