Critical Perspectives on the Curriculum of Teacher Education

Thomas S. Poetter holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from Indiana University, Bloomington. He is an Associate Professor of Curriculum in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Poetter is the author or coauthor of numerous journal articles on curriculum, teacher education, teacher research, and school reform as well as several books including The Education of Sam Sanders (AuthorHouse, 2003).Thomas L. Goodney holds an M.A. in Speech from Miami University and is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is the principal at Fairbanks High School in Milford Center, Ohio.Jennifer L. Bird holds bachelors and masters degrees in English Education from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 The Other Side of the "Technical" in Learning to Teach: Re-approaching Humanistic Tenets for Teacher EducationChapter 4 NCATE: Wolf in Shepherd's ClothesChapter 5 Teacher Education & Critical Transitivity: A Combination for Combating Commercialism in Schools?Chapter 6 How are We Perpetuating Class Distinctions? Assessing the Requirements of New Secondary Career/Technical Teachers in KentuckyChapter 7 Going It Alone: One StoryChapter 8 My Multigenre JourneyChapter 9 Chalk Dust and Gold Stars: Performing Teacher, Feminist Inquiry, and their Implications for Reconstructing Teacher EducationChapter 10 Nurturing the Spirit in Teacher EducationChapter 11 Battling the Discourses of Fear and Containment in Schooling and Teacher EducationChapter 12 BibliographyChapter 13 About the AuthorsChapter 14 Index