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- Title
A Teapot in the Tempest.
- Authors
Lucas, Christopher J.
- Abstract
The article reports on the state of teacher education in the United States. Teacher education needs reforms in terms of both fundamental and comprehensive. Proposals for reforms have ranged from minor internal reorganization within conventional programs to the superimposition of an extended graduate study sequence upon a four-year undergraduate substructure. More radical has been the call for the abandonment of teacher education altogether, prompted in part by the conviction that dedication, good intentions and actual experience are sufficient for good teaching and that in any event it is impossible to impart pedagogical expertise in any formal, structured fashion. The growth of teacher education represents something of a logical and historical anomaly in that the establishment and expansion of formal training programs both preceded and outstripped education's theoretical underpinnings. It is to be noted that the fractionation of interest is reflected in preparatory courses. An overcrowded curriculum necessitates superficial survey courses, none of which accomplishes what it was intended to do.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TEACHER training; EDUCATIONAL change; GRADUATE study in education; GRADUATE education; INTENTION; EXPERIENCE; CURRICULUM; INTEREST (Psychology); OCCUPATIONAL training
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1972, Vol 73, Issue 4, p577
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146817207300404