Investigated secondary school experience as part of Initial Teacher Training in England, examining designated study time during school experience, where tensions appeared between student teachers' roles as students and teachers. Study time was mainly used in activities directly related to practical teaching, reflecting the needs of students to…

Describes the role of boundary spanners, who facilitate the development of school/university partnerships. After describing the ideal partnership, offers examples of real issues that emerge when building partnerships and analyzes the surreal aspects of boundary spanning. Concludes with specific suggestions for developing school/university…

Investigated how English preservice elementary teachers built upon their repertoire of knowledge for teaching science, tracing their development of subject knowledge and pedagogical knowledge in science and their views about the knowledge base required. Interview data indicated that participants drew upon subject knowledge in combination with…

Examined future teachers', current teachers', and teacher educators' attitudes regarding various suggestions for improving the professional status of teaching. All groups rated extrinsic and intrinsic rewards for teaching the most important. They considered raising the standards of preservice programs and teacher certification important and…

Presents a framework for comparing and evaluating action research that transcends differences among existing models. The dimensions of the framework are theoretical orientation, purpose, and type of reflective process. The paper describes how the framework was developed and presents examples of how it can be used to analyze different approaches to…

Teacher educators addressed negative student responses to a multicultural foundations course by designing an action research study to investigate students' identities, experiences, and beliefs. Analysis of written assignments and focus group discussions uncovered three categories of beliefs about the purposes of schools in relation to cultural…

Undergraduate students and recent graduates of an urban teacher education program met regularly to discuss becoming reflective, effective teachers. Qualitative analysis of conversations highlighted the complex learning involved in teaching and factors in teacher education and schools that supported and hindered new teachers' work. The study…

Discusses how storytelling influences us and those around us, focusing on one teacher's story. After situating the inquiry within a narrative conceptualization of teacher identity and the professional contexts in which teachers work, the paper examines the teacher's story and examines ways in which response was continuously negotiated and lived…

Explains the evolution of the parallel stories methodology of contextualizing teacher knowledge, including substantive, theoretical, and conceptual understandings that arise from the inquiry and the implications the approach holds for teacher education programs. The paper also presents excerpts from a current publication to illustrate the…

Investigated teachers' declarative metacognitive knowledge of higher-order thinking skills in the context of an inservice project designed to foster higher-order thinking in junior high school science classes. The study found that teachers' intuitive knowledge of metacognition of thinking skills was unsatisfactory for the purpose of teaching…

Investigated how Dutch teachers and adult, female, immigrant students in basic education dealt with active learning, noting impediments to active learning experienced by teachers in basic education. Interviews with teachers and students indicated that students' passive attitudes, which teachers interpreted as culturally determined and problematic,…

Examined eight academic historians' educational beliefs in the context of their department, the university, and the history of the discipline, discussing similarities about goals for history education; perceptions of students; roles as teachers; and classroom patterns. Despite commonalities, there were key differences among educational beliefs…

This editorial introduces a theme issue on teacher-education reforms in the age of globalization, focusing on globalization and the transference of educational ideas and the economic imperative and teacher-education reforms. The editorial describes case studies that provide accounts of teacher-education reforms in Africa, South America, the Far…

Describes teacher education in Namibia following independence from South African rule, discussing a basis for transformation, critical factors affecting transformation, features of the teacher-preparation program, and tensions between different actors (including foreign support), suggesting that transformative forces must reorganize themselves at…

Presents a case study of institutional response to policy-driven/donor-influenced teacher-education reforms in Zambia, exploring perceptions and reactions of teacher educators as they cope with a new teacher-education paradigm and examining how policy-driven reforms can be at cross-purposes with, and destabilize, the professional beliefs of the…