Teacher National Accreditation as Community Dialogue: Transformative Reflections (Swim, Nichols, Mur
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-57273-911-6 Price:$49.50 Title: Teacher National Accreditation as Community Dialogue Sub-title: Transformative Reflections Author(s): Terry Jo Swim, Joe D. Nichols, Kathleen Murphey, Glenda Moss, Alice Merz, David Lindquist, and Barry Kanpol Publish Date: February 2010 Pages: 204 Format: Cloth
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Constantly laden with the burdensome tasks of NCATE accreditation, a group of scholars at one university joined together in an effort to better understand the theoretical and practical forces that informed the NCATE process. While it was clear that NCATE represented deskilling elements that so many of the group struggled with, it became evident that if groups join in visionary ways, the NCATE process can be used to transform faculty cultures. Transformation included the building of a community of individuals who resisted individualism. It also incorporated building meanings behind the NCATE rubrics. In the terms used in this text, these meaning challenged social control mechanisms, were linked to postformal thinking and a critical form of reflective pedagogy, and so on. This text will challenged teacher educators to view assessment as far more than a mere technical exercise. The authors collectively invite you into our community dialogue. Contents: NCATE as a Community Unifier: Paths of Tension to Transformative Consciousness, Barry Kanpol. NCATE and the Restructuring of Teacher Educators' Work: A Labor Process Perspective, Kathleen A. Murphey. NCATE, TEAC, Standards and Accreditation: Are We Winning or Losing the Race or Just Playing Tag?, Joe D. Nichols. Multiple Tensions: Measuring Up to NCATE and NCLB, David Lindquist. Working within Accountability Models--With Vision! Vision of Standardization and Vision of Critical Pedagogy, Glenda Moss. The Conceptual Framework: The Tie that Binds, Alice Merz. Resisting the Masculinization of NCATE: Three Theoretical Frameworks For Measuring Teacher Dispositions in Teacher Education Programs, Terri Jo Swim. Writing Our Way into Community: Reflexive Dialogue among Authors, Glenda Moss. About the Authors. Author Index. Subject Index.