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It's Not about That Anymore : = An Ecological Examination of the Theory-Practice Divide in Contemporary Teacher Education.

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Title/Author:	It's Not about That Anymore :/
Reminder of title:	An Ecological Examination of the Theory-Practice Divide in Contemporary Teacher Education.
Author:	Buchanan, Rebecca.
Description:	1 online resource (280 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Teacher education. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355131260

It's Not about That Anymore : = An Ecological Examination of the Theory-Practice Divide in Contemporary Teacher Education.
Buchanan, Rebecca.

It's Not about That Anymore :An Ecological Examination of the Theory-Practice Divide in Contemporary Teacher Education. - 1 online resource (280 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation investigates a perennial problem in teacher education: the theory-practice divide. There has always been a rift between theory and practice; however, this gap and the responses to it take on different shapes and meanings based on the reforms, politics, and structures of the time. For example, in the 1980s and 90s Professional Development Schools sought to close this gap (Darling-Hammond, 1994). In the 2000s, this gap became a flashpoint for targeted attacks on university teacher education on the one side, and on eased-entry teacher preparation alternatives on the other (Cochran-Smith & Fries, 2005a). Currently, many reform circles are trying to address the theory-practice divide (and the various concerns it engenders) by advocating what is called a Residency Model (Berry. Montgomery, & Snyder 2008). This study investigates how two teacher education programs, both with social justice agendas, navigated this divide. I identified two teacher education programs in California, one residency and one traditional, and using stratified random sampling selected several pre-service teachers, practicing teacher educators, and cooperating teachers from each site, and then collected longitudinal data over the course of one year. I employed an ethnographic, ecological analysis of program structure, teacher educator practice, and pre-service teacher development as sets of intertwined learning processes.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355131260Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148451
Teacher education.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

It's Not about That Anymore : = An Ecological Examination of the Theory-Practice Divide in Contemporary Teacher Education.
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