A qualitative case study explored the role methods courses played in the education of preservice teachers at a large southeastern university. This paper describes the study, and identifies three roles: the relevant role, the liberalizing role, and the critical role. Implications of the findings are explored. (MT)

Conducted case studies involving life history conversations and observations with six teacher educators in a British graduate school of education. Results revealed that the teacher educators' knowledge was characterized by a number of dimensions, including intentionality, practicality, subject specificity, and ethicality. This knowledge was deeply…

This article presents a conceptual framework that relates facts about the student teaching experience to what ought to be learned. Two cases of student teaching illustrate how the relative influence of program, setting, and participant interaction shape opportunities for learning. Suggestions for teacher educators are offered. (Author/MT)

Explores the use of oral and written discourse by two teachers in a graduate educational-studies program as they constructed knowledge about teaching and enacted the teaching-learning dialectic. The case studies examine the two teachers' motivations for entering graduate school, their individual processes for learning, their elaborations of…

Explored the trajectory of an early childhood educator's career commitment and eventual decision to leave teaching. Spanning 7 years, the study employed representation and analysis of metaphors as heuristic tools to illuminate the lived experience of becoming, being, and unbecoming an early childhood educator, highlighting the need to further…

Describes an action research project conducted while teaching a course about action research. Eight doctoral students and a professor co-taught the course, demonstrating aspects of action research and modeled research methodology for their students. The project helped them study their own teaching and their students' learning and demonstrated…

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…

Discusses ways that researchers in higher education may gain access to and collect quality data about teacher thinking and practice, proposing roles and relationships for researchers conducting qualitative research in which they may be consultants and in which affective, human-relating skills are as important as traditional technical research…

Describes an introductory teacher education course designed to challenge prospective teachers' beliefs, and presents some instructional problems that were experienced. The paper sketches the principal features of the course, describes and interprets the problems that were encountered, and closes with commentary on the case. (GLR)

Explores the relationship between conceptual orientations and pedagogical activities in the education of teachers. Two pedagogies, cases and hypermedia, and their interaction with familiar but often unarticulated conceptual orientations in teacher education are examined. (GLR)

Studied four teacher educators engaged in a cooperative self-study of their practice with regard to the use of case writing in their elementary preservice courses. Participants had similar definitions of cases. They realized that their different research agendas led to differences in their teaching practice. They valued what they learned about…

All forms of teacher education share a common ground: they are rhetorical in nature and aimed at persuading teachers. This paper provides a case study of a reform project that seeks to support teachers rather than exerting power over them. The paper calls for an explicitly rhetorical approach to teacher education that is powerful without abusing…

Study examined programmatic and personal dimensions shaping eight future teachers' beliefs and practices, charting developmental stages via dialogue journals and case study analysis. Journals written at three stages indicated subjects' personal biographies interacted with other influences, helping or impeding their ability to negotiate and reflect…

Examines three case studies of educators (teachers, administrators, and paraprofessionals) who came together initially during a summer professional development experience. Through a two-week immersion, educators and facilitators engaged in challenging their assumptions and practice through the lens of constructivist pedagogy. The immersion evolved…

Discusses the interaction among school and university contexts, instruction, and individual practice that occurs as telecommunications technology is integrated into teacher education programs. Data from a series of studies of such integration within one university are presented. The paper describes how the studies contributed to the development of…