Research, practice, and academia in North America
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Date
2004
Authors
Cole, Ardra
Knowles, J. Gary
Journal Title
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Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishing
Abstract
The self-study of teacher education practices has found its place on the
teacher education landscape as a principled, scholarly practice that has
begun to shift understandings about the nature and significance of teacher
educators’ work and what counts as acceptable academic scholarship. Selfstudy
scholars have brought their individual career histories and commitments
to teacher education to bear on their academic roles within the
context of the university and, in so doing, have taken up a challenge to
shift status quo perspectives on the role and status of teacher education in
the academy. Through individual and collective action self-study scholars
have responded to criticisms levied against the place of teacher education
in the academy, dilemmas presented by the nature of their work and roles,
and challenges facing them in their professional and academic work. In this
chapter we focus on the tenure system in North American universities and
the role it plays in monitoring, mediating, and moderating the individual
and collective practice of teacher educators. We offer a framework for
reconsidering the norms of academic convention and the socializing forces
that govern teacher educators’ work in the academy and a vision of what
such a reorientation might mean in practice. We then draw on this framework
to explore how the self-study of teacher education scholarship and
practice, as a genre, has positioned itself to challenge the status quo of
academic convention for schools, departments, and faculties of education.
Description
The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Keywords
Teacher education practices , Postsecondary education
Citation
Cole, A. L., & Knowles, J. G. (2004). Research, practice, and academia in North America. In J. Loughran, M. L. Hamilton, V. LaBoskey, & T. Russell (Eds.). International handbook of self-study of teaching and teacher education practices (pp. 451-482). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing.