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ERIC Number: EJ265237
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982
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Technicians, Mandarins, and Witnesses: Searching for Professional Understanding.
Finkelstein, Barbara
Journal of Teacher Education, v33 n3 p25-27 May-Jun 1982
In teacher education's current atmosphere of challenge, perplexity, and moral and intellectual crisis, there are at least three responses: (1) technicist, involving a strategic retreat into scientism and machines, laboratories, and computers; (2) Mandarin, involving traditional centers of learning among books and inspirational prose; and (3) mediator, involving both technicist and Mandarin communities. (CJ)
Descriptors: Foundations of Education, Higher Education, Professional Recognition, Program Improvement, Schools of Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, Teacher Morale, Teacher Role
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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