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Preparing America’s Teachers: A Historyreviewed by Christopher J. Lucas - April 26, 2007 Title: Preparing America’s Teachers: A History Author(s): James W. Fraser Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807747343 , Pages: 288, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com The history of teacher preparation is one of the most neglected topics in the literature of American education. So declares Professor Fraser in recounting how teacher training has been organized and conductedor given short shriftfrom colonial times down to the present day. His is a thoroughly engaging and masterful account, skillfully retold. Setting aside the details of teacher licensure issues, policy disputes, the work of such familiar reformers as Horace Mann and Henry Barnard, the growing influence of accreditation bodies, and so on, he focuses instead on the many types of teacher training agencies that flourished in all their confusing variability throughout the 1800s and into the century following: pedagogical seminaries, academies, teacher institutes, high schools, normal schools, preparatory departments, colleges, and so on. Only gradually, the author remarks, did identifying labels begin to yield to some semblance of order and intelligibility. The authors analysis of that convoluted process of... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Christopher Lucas
University of Arkansas—Fayetteville CHRISTOPHER J. LUCAS is Professor of Foundations of Education and Policy Studies at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. His degrees include a B.A. (Syracuse University); the M.A.T. (Northwestern University); and Ph.D. (Ohio State University). He taught previously at Kent State University and the University of Missouri prior to assuming his current post. He is the author of numerous works, including American Higher Education: A History; Crisis in the Academy; New Faculty; and Teacher Education in America: Reform Agendas for the Twenty-First Century.
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