Reformers are increasingly calling for and adopting practice-based approaches to teacher
preparation, with particular emphasis on identifying and centering core practices. In this …

Background Historically and contemporarily, dominant conceptualizations of quality
teaching are and have been rooted in notions of the cultural deficiency and inferiority of …

There is a prevailing narrative about the field of teacher education: that it is “broken and
needs to be fixed”(Cochran-Smith, Piazza, & Power, 2013, p. 7). As underscored in key …

■ How best to prepare teachers to teach language minoritized youth is an unsettled
question (eg, Faltis & Valdes, 2016). 1 In K-12 schools in the United States, practice-based …

In developing student creativity, it is still a topic of discussion from various experts, especially
at the university level, which is related to the optimization of the right brain as a student …

This dissertation explores how urban public school teachers navigate the contradictory
social position of having little power over their work and considerable power over their …

Second Language Teacher Education as a field of study within teacher education is
relatively small. The field is often subdivided into the teaching of English as a Second or …

Neoliberalism permeates US teacher education programs and governmental policy,
consequently increasing market pressure in teacher education and stunting the …

This dissertation explores how four critical teachers of color learn and develop through
dialogue and reflection about their own educational and life histories as well as their work in …

This dissertation explored different angles on novice teachers' professional growth and
development through three research papers, formulated in three chapters of the dissertation …