Introduces a theme issue on the publish or perish issue in teacher education institutions. The collection of articles includes teacher educators' autobiographical accounts and personal narratives about the complexities, difficulties, challenges, prospects, and promises of researching within the academy as well as more distanced analyses of these…

Addresses the publish or perish issue within teacher education institutions, introducing a collection of articles that provides insights into how a set of alternative assumptions might be adopted and implemented by university administrators and teacher educators to create more manageable, balanced, effective, and satisfying institutional and…

Introduces several papers on reform in preservice education, addressing the nature and place of such reform within broader educational reform and discussing schools of education and their relationship to the reform agenda, schools of education as contexts for reform, teachers and their work, and beginning professors' role in preservice reform. (SM)

Drawing on one educator's experiences as a beginning professor, the article discusses the prospects of teacher education reform and beginning teachers as change agents, commenting on values conflicts within schools of education and between them and broader university communities, politics of epistemology, and reward structures in schools of…

Two beginning teacher educators exchanged letters documenting their experiences and highlighting contexts and demands associated with their roles and institutional expectations. Five years later, they reviewed their letters and now present an open letter to Deans of Education raising issues related to the induction and work of beginning teacher…

Study of teachers' professional knowledge and development examined seven new instructors at a Canadian community college. The paper discusses a range of levels at which teachers' professional knowledge can be discerned, emphasizing the importance of listening to teachers' voices without limiting that listening to personal, practical, or…