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Title Transforming teacher education : lessons in professional development / edited by Hugh Sockett [and others] ; foreword by David T. Hansen
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations
Summary Teacher professional development requires a dynamic vision of education. The authors argue that teaching and teacher education are moral rather than technical or instrumental endeavors, and describe a highly innovative master's program for practicing teachers founded in 1992. By describing important aspects of the program, the authors demonstrate that a moral vision can be enacted in practice, despite many constraints and challenges. They also show that any serious attempt to change practice will, of course, be unwieldy, contentious, and subject to sudden shocks and reversals as well as succes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index
Subject Teachers -- Training of -- United States.
Teachers -- In-service training -- United States
Teachers -- In-service training
Teachers -- Training of
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Sockett, Hugh
ISBN 031300403X
9780313004032
0897897900
9780897897907