Reconceptualizing the Debate Over the General Education of Teachers

Bibliographic Data

ID4306832
AuthorsPaul Shaker (Department of Teacher Education, Mount Union College), Walter Ullrich (Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio)
Year1987
Volume38
Issue1
Pages11-15
Publication date1987-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Teacher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4871 • E-ISSN: 1552-7816
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/002248718703800103
OpenAlexW1980430093
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

While recent higher education proposals call for widespread reform, teacher educa tion has undergone special scrutiny. Re form proposals vary from increasing the general education background of pro spective teachers to discontinuing the un dergraduate education major. Enlarging any discipline's share of the curriculum, however, is unlikely to prepare better teachers or graduates. What will make a difference, argue the authors, is an in tegrative general education curriculum and reform in the conduct of college teaching across the disciplines, with leadership emerging from schools, col leges and departments of education

Comparative education · Curriculum · Education reform · General education · Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Primary education · Scrutiny · Sociology · Teacher education · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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