Schooling Teachers: Teach for America and the Future of Teacher Education

ISBN-13: 9780807764688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Megan Blumenreich; Bethany L. Rogers

Spis treści

• Contents (Tentative)
• Foreword Michele Foster
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Beloved Alternative: Teach For America
• Conventional vs. Alternative Teacher Education
• Studying the Inaugural TFA Cohort
• Structure of the Book
• 1. TFA and the Paradox of the 1980s
• 1980s Writ Large
• "The Sky Is Falling": Education in the 1980s
• A "Kinder, Gentler Nation": Student Idealism in the 1980s
• Conclusion
• 2. A Mission, a Lark, a Job: Choosing Teach For America
• Choosing to Teach vs. Choosing TFA
• The Right Job at the Right Time: Factors Affecting the Choice to Join TFA
• Conclusion
• 3. Preparing to Teach for America: The Summer Institute
• Teacher Education, Circa 1990
• The TFA Summer Institute, 1990
• Participant Recollections: Lessons and Implications
• Conclusion
• 4. "Multiculturalism Run Amok": Identity Politics at the Summer Institute
• Multiculturalism in 1990 America: A Debate "Older than the Nation Itself"
• Multiculturalism and Teacher Education
• TFA Participant Experiences of Multiculturalism at the Summer Institute
• Conclusion
• 5. Ordeal by Fire: The 1990 Corps in the Classroom
• "Survival and Discovery": The Beginning Teacher's Experience
• New Teacher Challenges of the TFA Participants
• Participant Responses
• Conclusion
• 6. University-Based Teacher Educators in the Crosshairs: Responding to TFA and the New Reforms
• Teacher Education: How Did We Get Here?
• The 1980s: Unleashing Change
• Responding to New Pressures
• Conclusion
• 7. The Legacy of TFA
• Measuring TFA's Impact
• Implications: Alumni Experiences and the Making of Teachers
• TFA Alumni: Influence on Education
• TFA Influence on Participants' Lives
• Concluding Thoughts
• Conclusion
• Appendices
• Notes
• Index
• About the Authors