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Teacher Education Curriculum

• Case Method in Physical Education Higher Education: A Pedagogy of Change?
  Examines the use of the case method to reform physical education teacher education. Reviews research on the use of cases in other professional preparation programs, and on multicultural education and case method, and technology-based cases.
• Developing a Multicultural Focus in Teacher Education: One Department's Story
  This paper describes how the University of Wisconsin-Parkside developed a multicultural emphasis in its teacher education program, noting that implementing such a focus in a school with predominantly white students and faculty members required a paradigm shift for both the program and the faculty. (SM).
• Educating teachers for restructured schools
  In this book, leading scholars address a range of issues, ideas, and research findings in the field of teacher education, examining specific disciplines, social foundations, and program structures, as well as school reform and diversity.
• Is There a Place for Cultural Studies in Colleges of Education?
  Describes the diverse assumptions and practices defined under the banner of cultural studies, suggesting how the field might have important consequences for individuals concerned with reforming schools and colleges of education. The paper addresses how progressive educators might contribute, examining how the field could be included in the larger discourse of social reconstruction.
• Keeping It Real: Teaching and Learning about Culture, Literacy, and Respect
  Describes one teacher education program designed to broaden students' thinking about the influences of culture in society, and teaching and learning about literacy. Offers an "unromanticized glimpse" into the lives of teacher education students as they struggle to come to terms with their transformation as literacy educators preparing to teach literacy in multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual classrooms of the 21st century.
• Patterns in prospective teachers: Guides for designing preservice programs
  In this book, leading scholars address a range of issues, ideas, and research findings in the field of teacher education, examining specific disciplines, social foundations, and program structures, as well as school reform and diversity. Part Four: Program Structures and Design contains: "Patterns in Prospective Teachers: Guides for Designing Preservice Programs (K.
• Patterns in prospective teachers: Guides for designing preservice programs
  In this book, leading scholars address a range of issues, ideas, and research findings in the field of teacher education, examining specific disciplines, social foundations, and program structures, as well as school reform and diversity.
• Preparing English Teachers To Teach Diverse Student Populations: Beliefs, Challenges, Proposals for Change
  Argues a need for in-depth consideration of principles and practices to prepare teachers for classrooms they will face in the future. Notes problems created by the disparity between increasing student diversity and their overwhelmingly white, female English/language arts teachers.
• Program structures and learning to teach
  In this book, leading scholars address a range of issues, ideas, and research findings in the field of teacher education, examining specific disciplines, social foundations, and program structures, as well as school reform and diversity. "Program Structures and Learning to Teach" (R.