Advances in Teacher Education

Selected essays address issues of what comprises the knowledge base in teacher education, how previous conceptions have been challenged, and the implications of both traditional and newer views for teacher education and teaching.

This book explores challenges in education and teacher training, questioning traditional knowledge classification. It examines shifts driven by feminism, multiculturalism, and naturalistic research methods, offering a collection of essays that address these evolving issues.

The field of education generally, and teacher education particularly, is experiencing some general disquiet with traditional approaches to the identification and classification of knowledge. Formal research studies, long the source of the knowledge base of teaching, is discredited by new ideologies that are based in the women's movement, the multiculturalists, and persons taken up with newer research strategies called naturalistic, ethnographic, or case study approaches. The book is a collection of essays that rehearses the issues facing the field, and addresses them in forthright fashion.