"Los testimonios," or life stories, shared in this volume reveal that academia represents a labyrinth of challenges for aspiring and emerging Latina scholars--a story these authors know all too well. As Latina "veterana" scholars, who have traveled this arduous journey, the authors recognize that their collective efforts have…

Offers an anthropological perspective by examining the role of knowledge transmission in the maintenance and transformation of professional communities in higher education, exploring the use of the ritual process at academic meetings (such as those of the American Anthropological Association). Emphasizing successful conference rituals, the article…

Explored differences in how mother-students and traditional-aged, non-mother preservice teachers transitioned into classroom settings. Interview and observation data indicated that the overlap and influence between the dual roles of mothering and preservice teaching affected mother-students' transitions. Their maternal perspectives were…

Examines a 1920s campaign to implement the project method in Milwaukee public schools, following the perilous road it traveled from exemplary model to urban classrooms, and arguing that public high schools have been very resistant to pedagogical innovations which might unleash students' learning potential. The impact of this reform, started by…

Discusses cultural influences on the definition of disability, explaining the distinction between what is in students and what the cultural construction for them is; exploring eastern and western conceptions of people with disabilities; noting the negative consequences that the American construction of disability brings to people with…

Revisits the work of Louise Rosenblatt, who argued that literary experiences might be made the very core of the kind of educational process needed in a democracy, exploring her philosophy and her literary theory to examine whether, within the school curriculum, literary experience should be considered as crucial to educating citizens as are…

Introduces a theme issue which examines specific professional preparation programs in field-based sites as well as student experiences in those programs. Each paper critically examines how revised social foundations standards inform and are evident in these programs. The papers all describe particular practices situated in specific programmatic…

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…

Describes a 5th-year teacher education program created by social foundations faculty in partnership with inner city schools, arguing that as state and national movements favor broader performance-based standards over social foundations, social foundations faculty cannot rely on state regulations to safeguard their courses. The partnership…

Describes a site-based, rural teacher education program for Navajo students (the Pinon Partnership Program) which infused foundations throughout the program and used the Council of Learned Societies in Education's (CLSE) Social Foundations standards as its framework. Specific examples of how the six CLSE principles played out in the author's…

Traces the development, by foundations faculty, of a Master of Education program, based in social foundations content and knowledge, discussing successes, tensions, and dilemmas they faced and explaining how foundational perspectives shaped the content of the curriculum they developed and how their perspectives illuminated the processes by which…

Demonstrates how social foundations and curriculum and instruction scholars collaborated on a professional development project for inservice teachers, describing a summer institute designed to facilitate teaching for diversity. The paper discusses themes resulting from an action research project that examined patterns of teacher talk, particularly…

Uses "U.S. News and World Report" Web site data to investigate sources of education school prestige, examining rank of the college or university in which it is located, education school rank, and rank of different programs within the education school. Results highlight the strong relationship between status of the social/philosophical foundations…

Offers an alternative perspective on school violence and other crime on school property that seeks to understand school violence as a contextually determined social phenomena. The paper discusses district-to-district variability in crime on school property in terms of out-of-school and in-school community and variability in economic and…

Interrogates the record of George Bush, Sr. regarding his legacy on civil rights and school desegregation, discussing school desegregation and busing, his administration's challenge to busing, change and continuity in his administration's school desegregation policies, and the emergence of Hispanic education as an issue. The paper concludes that…