Biopower,disciplinary power,and the production of the 'good Latino/a teacher'

This inquiry explores who is the ‘good teacher of color’. Through Michel Foucault's notion of biopower and disciplinary power, the analysis attempts to problematize the subject-position of ‘teacher of color’ by exploring how a Latino intern and a Latina intern negotiated their subjectivity in a large diverse school district. Participants' construction of subjectivity was found to be located within the nexus of the school district, the university, and the Latino counter-discourse through which biopower and disciplinary power operated.     

“Why do you make me hate myself?”: Re-teaching Whiteness,abuse, and love in urban teacher education

Teacher educators are constantly trying to improve the field to meet the needs of a growing urban populace. Inclusion of socially just philosophies in the curriculum is indeed essential, yet it can mask the recycling of normalized, oppressive Whiteness. This reflective and theoretical paper employs critical race theory and critical Whiteness studies to deconstruct Whiteness, abuse, and love in teacher education. Using an interdisciplinary and emotion-based approach to understanding Whiteness, this paper examines how denying race during white childhood via a color-blind ideology leaves lasting emotional scars, impressions that perpetuate the institutional silencing of race in teacher education. This “abuse” is projected onto urban students of color and, more broadly, people of color. This paper asserts that until teacher education programs make confronting and exploring Whiteness a priority, they cannot truly love their urban students of color as complete beings and so deny humanity full and just consideration.     

从教师教育专业化看教师教育学院院长素质

教师职业具有专业化的一切特征,教师专业化呼唤教师教育专业化.教师专业化已经成为一种强劲的思潮,极大地推动了许多发达国家教师教育新理念和新制度的建立.国际教师教育专业化潮流在催生我国教师教育学院的同时,也迫使其依据教师教育专业化要求实施改革与转型.在教师教育改革方面,担任主要角色的教师教育学院院长已经面临来自内外部的压力,为了应对这些变化,院长必须在教师教育的规划、实施和教育服务方面承担起主要的领导责任,以迎接教师教育专业化的挑战.     

Transgressive and negotiated White racial knowledge

Abstract

This critical case study investigated the experiences of six White preservice teachers as they learned about race and racism during the first semester of an urban-focused teacher preparation program. The author identified two broad themes of transgressive White racial knowledge and negotiated White racial knowledge to capture the participants’ engagement with the topic of race. By detailing the complexities of the racial knowledge of a group of race-conscious White teachers, the project helps to de-homogenize conceptualizations of White teachers’ racial identities. The transgressive knowledge displayed by the participants largely occurred in their intellectual understandings of issues related to urban education. When the participants discussed their antiracist practice and their own complicity in racism, their negotiations with critical understandings of race emerged. These findings suggest that educators working with race-conscious White teachers should emphasize the messiness inherent in enacting an antiracist practice and think differently about the subtle distancing strategies White teachers often deploy to release themselves from complicity in racism.     

The Emotionality of Whiteness in Physical Education Teacher Education

ABSTRACT

The physical education teacher education (PETE) pipeline makes it clear to historically racially minoritized pre-service teachers the value of White norms and experiences while simultaneously “othering” their cultural knowledge. Using Critical Race Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies, and emotionality as theoretical frameworks, this visual narrative inquiry explored self-identified Black and Latinx pre-service physical education teachers’ (n = 10) stories of a racialized identity within predominantly White PETE programs as well as the emotionality of whiteness for myself as a White researcher and teacher educator. I utilized narrative-based semi-structured and conversational interviews, along with photo-elicitation, as methods of data collection. The results contrast participants’ experiences of normalized racism with my heightened emotions of shock and dismay, shedding light on my own white emotionality toward racism. The critical examination of the emotions of whiteness demonstrated the potential to lead PETE faculty toward deeper reflection as to how whiteness is upheld, but also how they might further work to de-center whiteness within their pedagogies, curricula, and programs.     

We train,but what do they think? Preservice teachers’ perceptions of the adequacy of their teacher education in Turkey

The study aimed to assess the adequacy of pre-service teacher education in Turkey as perceived by preservice teachers. Specifically, the researchers investigated preservice teachers’ perceptions of the adequateness of their education in terms of developing teaching skills and the major components of teacher education. The factors affecting their perceptions were also examined. In total, 1856 preservice teachers participated in the study. A questionnaire was prepared to collect data from the participants. According to the findings, teacher education should be enhanced in terms of preparing candidates for skills such as teaching in different contexts and cooperating with parents; and practicum hours needed to be improved for more effective preparation of preservice teachers. Moreover, it was also found that the preservice teachers’ subject, college, orientation towards teaching and the perceived adequacy of program components played significant roles in affecting their perceptions of teacher education.     

Elementary teachers’ science subject matter knowledge across the teacher career cycle

Although widely touted as important, there is little evidence regarding the influence of teaching experience on elementary teachers' science subject matter knowledge (SMK). To better understand this phenomenon, we administered an assessment of science topics taught in the fifth and sixth grades to 169 preservice teachers, 231 fifth-grade teachers, and 208 sixth-grade teachers. We then compared the mean scores of teachers at different stages in the career cycle using one-way and two-way ANOVA and explored the relationship between SMK scores and years of teaching experience using regression analysis. Findings indicate that (i) being assigned to a specific grade level had an impact on teachers' SMK for topics included in the grade level, (ii) teachers' SMK scores were lower later in their careers for both science topics they had never taught and for science topics they were responsible for teaching, and (iii) results differed for fifth and sixth grades. This study adds to the existing literature through the examination of a large sample of elementary teachers, with teachers of varying years of experience, while focusing on the science topics these teachers are responsible for teaching. The results of this study provide strong evidence that (i) years of experience teaching specific science topics is associated with the development of teachers' knowledge of these topics, and (ii) teaching experience, what teachers do in the context of their everyday practice, can be an effective means of self-directed learning for teachers. There is also evidence that this influence is not uniform across years of teaching experience or science topics taught. These findings raise important implications about future research into the mechanism of SMK development through teaching experience and teacher grade-level assignments.     

Social justice and school linkages in teacher education programmes

This paper investigates current research into the role of education in combating social injustice, assembles this research to indicate key features of a teacher education programme that would assist education for social justice, and links these features to one innovative university teacher education programme to ascertain some of the practical difficulties in establishing such a programme. The research indicated key approaches that would enhance the probability that graduates from teacher education programmes will be able to pursue social justice initiatives.     

创新教师教育,造就优秀教师和教育家

本文指出我国教育进入全面提高质量新的历史阶段,教师成为核心要素,建设高素质教师队伍将是今后教育改革发展的重点;并就学科教师教育的发展与创新问题,提出开展教师教育创新实践、探索学科教师教育改革、处理好教育理论研究与学科教育研究关系、形成合作共同体等观点。     

主体性教师——教师教育的应然选择

教师是今日教育中的核心人物，教师教育是今日教育研究中的非常话语。教师的成长是一个全生命的终身学习过程，工具性教师是对今日教师的简约表征．主体性教师是对明日教师的形象期待。确立主体性的教师教育观念，创设主体性的教师教育过程，实行主体性的教育管理方式，是主体性教师培育的基本要求。     

教师职业专业化与我国师范教育

教师职业伴随着师范教育的诞生、发展不断发生变革，逐步形成专业化的特征。根据国际国内师范教育历史发展的经验和教训，我国要加强教师专业化，须提高教师的学历标准，开放培养体系，优化课程结构，实现师资培养、培训的一体化。     

当前我国高等院校特殊教育专业人才培养现状分析及其启示

教师专业化是世界教师教育的大趋势。从事特殊教育的教师,因其教育对象的复杂性,需要有更多的专业知识及专业训练技能,因此其专业发展的要求更加强烈。高校特殊教育专业学生的培养,是密切影响特殊教育教师专业发展的决定性因素。本文采用文献法,对北京师范大学等12所高校具有代表性的特殊教育专业培养方案进行文本分析。通过对我国特殊教育师资培养目标、培养方式及课程设置的研究,分析其特点,提供经验及启示,以期助推我国特殊教师教育改革及特殊教育教师的专业化发展。     

美、加、澳初任教师专业标准及其对我国教师教育的启示

初任教师的专业标准实际上就是新教师的入职门槛,对教师教育具有重要的导向作用。各国的初任教师专业标准既有共同性,都注重专业知识、专业实践、专业责任、持续学习诸方面,又各有特色:美国《InTASC示范核心教学标准》重视发展性、加拿大安大略省《专业实践基础》重视实践性、《澳大利亚初任教师教育项目认证:标准和程序》则具体而易操作。以上三国的初任教师专业标准,对中国教师专业标准的制定以及职前教师教育培养目标的完善有积极的启示作用。     

关注教师群体,促进教育公平

教师群体是教育事业得以发展的宝贵资源,是教育改革的关键,是促进教育公平的重要力量。近年来由于教师群体受到一些不公正和不尊重待遇,引起一系列如教师幸福指数偏低、职业倦怠、角色质疑与角色超载、话语缺失等现实问题。这些问题不仅影响到教育质量的提高,更不利于教师形象的塑造。因此,应将教师遇到的困境纳入到公平的范畴给予更多的关注。     

培训新教师的导师:来自荷兰的经验

荷兰学者冯克进行了长期研究,发现作为一名成功的新教师导师必须具备的知识基础包括三个基本要素:第一,新教师专业发展的过程;第二,指导新教师课堂教学的策略;第三,理解新教师的经验学习过程.     

关于高质量教师教育的阐释——评《有效教师教育》

高质量教师教育要有积极的教学观和教师观作指导,要构建教学的知识基础作为其理论依据,在实施过程中通过课程与实习交织进行并采用有效的实习策略来突出理论与实践的结合,要采用以新学问观为基础的教授评价和奖励制度来激励教师教育者,同时还需要专业政策与政府政策的支持。这就是《有效教师教育》一书带给我们的启发。     

论教师专业发展与教师职业培训

要把握教师专业发展首先要端正三大认识,即教育专家不等于教育学者,教育技能不能代替教育感受力,教师的生存境界不能代替发展境界;其次要确立两大理念,即教师是课程的领导者,科研引导教学的教师发展观。而教师职业培训则应重点关注自我发展的专业成长理论和研究者姿态的培训取向。     

简论建构主义教师观

建构主义在教师角色及其作用问题上的见解完全颠覆和否定了传统的教师观。建构主义认为,教师不是传递知识的“工程师”,而是苏格拉底倡导的“助产士”,教师的作用不在于给予学生“真理”,而是在确定的经验领域里,在意义建构上给予学生支持;教师不是支配学生学习的权威者和控制者,而是学生建构知识的帮助者、引导者与合作者;教师在教学活动中要有正确的角色认知并处理好角色互换;教师教育应按建构主义的理解和要求来确立培养目标。     

我国教师教育研究十年回顾与反思

教师教育问题是当代世界各国共同关注的话题,通过对我国学术理论界近10年来教师教育的研究进行回顾和反思,集中从教师教育改革的意义、教师专业化、教师教育模式三个方面的问题进行分析,并指出需要进一步探讨的问题。     

江西省教育类课程教师科研现状调查研究

教育类课程教师的科研是培养未来教师师范性能力的重要手段,提高教师业务水平、学术水平的主要途径,也是提高基础教育教学水平,推进基础教育改革,全面提高基础教育质量的主要动力。本文通过调查研究江西省200名教育类课程教师2000—2004年在国内刊物上发表的论文,反映目前教育类课程教师的科研现状。