Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question: Why We Need Critical Teacher Education, Not Standardization

Autor/inn/en	Madeloni, Barbara; Gorlewski, Julie
Titel	Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question: Why We Need Critical Teacher Education, Not Standardization
Quelle	In: Rethinking Schools, 27 (2013) 4, S.16-21 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-6855
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Teacher Evaluation; Standards; Teacher Education; Multicultural Education; Social Justice; Academic Freedom; Commercialization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Standard; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Akademische Freiheit
Abstract	The authors contend that teacher education (like K-12) is under attack by those seeking to exploit the public good and privatize education. Teacher educators find themselves on the defensive, compelled to answer questions about efficacy and accountability that do not reflect their understandings of their work, questions that do not address the most pressing concerns of critical multicultural educators: making schools sites for social justice and advocating for education as liberation. Into this moment comes edTPA, promoted as an answer to the perceived shortcomings of teacher education. EdTPA is a 40-plus-page document featuring Pearson Inc.'s logo. The final product is submitted to a "calibrated scorer," whose evaluation reduces student work to a number. As such, states these authors, it is the wrong answer to the question of how teacher education should be improved. This article argues that the edTPA distorts the teacher education process, narrows the possibilities of teaching and learning, distracts from critical multicultural and social justice education, is an invitation for corporate encroachment, and restricts academic freedom. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10