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…

Responds to an article that offered 10 dichotomies in teacher education (SP 527 128). After discussing the dichotomies and examining the centrality of the theory-practice dichotomy, challenges teacher educators to understand and close the theory-practice gap, making harmonious the various structural, administrative, programmatic, 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…

Introduces a collection of papers that discuss using personal histories to better understand teacher preparation and development. The article explains what personal histories are, why it is important to write about and research them, and how to understand the power of personal histories in the work and lives of teachers. (SM)

Presents an account of a teacher's first year of teaching, focusing on her central metaphors for teaching. The metaphor "teacher is buddy" represented a driving force in her thinking about teaching and working in the classroom. The article discusses the benefits of using metaphors as windows into beginning teachers' thinking and professional…