A Turning Point in Teacher Education

A Turning Point in Teacher Education: A Time for Resistance, Reflection, and Change reminds us to be thoughtfully engaged, realizing that teacher education is a complex enterprise that demands concentrated attention to maintain its educative focus and at the same time to be critically aware of the multiple forces that are at play to undermine the professionalization of teaching. Indeed, this text is a call to action to resist those forces in an effort that works to elevate the status and honor of what it takes and means to be a professional educator. -- Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, PhD, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University
Kirylo and Aldridge manage to pull off two impressive accomplishments here: reclaiming the narrative of teacher education that has been hijacked by the neoliberal market-based reform movement, and issuing a call to arms for teacher educators—and teachers—to make the pivot from advocates to activists. Teachers, by their very nature, are too often loathe to engage in the “politics” of the policy debate—and as the authors point out so convincingly, the time to get off “the bench” is long past. -- Mitchell Robinson, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Music Education, Michigan State University