Students can learn to understand prose by carefully listening to the author's voice. The paper gives examples of prose in standard block form and in a poetic form, explaining why students find the poetic form more comprehensible. Students' awareness of rhetoric can be developed through the Myers Briggs inventory. (SM)

Paper examines how four educators who did not elect to follow careers as formal school administrators engaged in learning activities to become educational leaders, following them through special leadership programs. The return of three of the four to the classroom rather than entering administrative posts suggests the need for broader definitions…

Reports a study that examined the expectations of cooperating teachers regarding nontraditional student teachers. Surveys of 35 cooperating teachers from 9 schools indicated that nearly half of the cooperating teachers believed that age and gender made a difference in how they regarded their student teachers. (SM)

Teaching pedagogy involves more than applying techniques of curriculum and instructional development in the classroom. Metaphors of teaching are used to explore hidden assumptions about teaching, learning, knowledge, production, and culture embedded in traditional teaching paradigms. The role and function of teachers, given the differing…

Presents four images of teachers as the basis of a conceptual framework for a teacher education program to develop teachers as leaders (including teacher as scholar, reflective practitioner, partner in learning, and fully functioning person). Teacher education programs must propose an image of teaching as a rich, complex lifelong journey. (SM)

Teacher educators are responsible for preparing teachers to be culturally responsive. The paper presents a case study of one middle school teacher with a diverse group of students who led her classroom in a culturally responsive manner, examining teacher conceptions of self/other, teacher/student relations, and conceptions of knowledge. (SM)

A documentary on the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry shows how educators challenged social inequality, offering an overview relevant to teacher and administrator preparation programs. The article examines issues of participation, transformation, and political consciousness as related to the documentary, discussing educational…

This annotated guide presents 51 resources on the subject of engagement in ethical, political, and social discourse and deliberative action when developing educators as leaders. Topics include mentoring, empowerment, women's issues, peer coaching, collective bargaining, teacher/principal relationships, and school restructuring. (SM)

This review of "Teacher Lore," a book of essays, highlights what teacher lore is, teachers' stories and ideas, and learning from teacher lore. The book invites teachers to look searchingly into their daily practice in order to understand the mystery and intangibles of teaching. It is recommended for preservice and inservice teachers. (SM)

Paper reviews a book of essays on interpretive approaches to educational policy making. The essays are categorized as mythological/practical, evolutionary/transformational, and normative/critical. Though the quality of the essays varies, the book is seen as useful as an introductory textbook for senior undergraduate courses in interpretive…

Paper reviews a collection of essays on the experiences of beginning teachers. The essays were written mainly by English and elementary school teachers after many years of successful teaching. All of the authors became effective career teachers. The authors write about the rewards of affecting and changing lives. (SM)

Reviews an important period in teacher education's history sponsored by the American Council on Education's Commission on Teacher Education (1939-42), highlighting lessons learned about reform, which confirm the value of recent work in teacher education that maximizes participation, builds school-university partnerships, and forms student cohorts…

Examines the relations of power that shaped one elementary preservice teacher's pedagogical discourse and practice, using a poststructuralist, connectionist framework and data from classroom observations of the student teacher and her cooperating teacher to describe multiple social and discursive relations that interconnected to produce what…

Discusses two student teachers' contrasting stories about their attempts to access experienced teachers' wisdom (via interviews), highlighting the shifting power relations between students and their cooperating teachers. Their stories illustrate how student teachers can be powerful yet powerless and suggest that student teachers can develop a…

Describes the use of autobiographical storytelling, personal myths, and visual imagery in preparing elementary and special educators for activist roles in creating effective, inclusive schools. Graduate students were presented with a social-constructivist perspective toward the content and process of schooling. Examples of materials produced by…