Preservice teacher candidates hold disparate repertoires of beliefs and values about teaching. Many construct primitive, underdeveloped knowledge bases that influence their teaching styles and affect their responses to teacher education programs. If teacher education programs do not recognize and addres their prior knowledge, preservice teachers experience little or no change in their values an…
The aim of this study is to evaluate the new Turkish education program that has been being implemented since 2005 gradually in light of teacher suggestions. The study has been done in scanning model. In this study which has been conducted with the purpose of evaluating the newly prepared Turkish education programs, the program has been tried to be evaluated in light of Turkish teachers' opinion…
Early years and primary teachers have a unique opportunity to apply their strong teaching practices, classroom management and understanding of childhood literacy development to teaching a language. They could provide the 'dream scenario' of introducing a subsequent language in a purposeful, social and communicative environment with only a simple level of language acquisition and cultural unders…
Different aspects of diversity have been explored in order to assess whether preservice teachers are being prepared to meet the needs of their diverse student population. Diversity continues to be examined in a fragmented way by looking at issues separately. It seems necessary that prior to assessing preservice teachers' competence in diversity, teacher education programs be examined in their t…
This article considers the literacies of Health and Physical Education in the context of Australian education. It argues that much more than traditional literacy is involved and that emerging literacy theories offer ways of considering a broader range of literacies, including multiliteracies and body-as-text, and their place in the curriculum.
This chapter offers practicing educators' experiences and perspectives of equity in education. The authors explore personal issues within the current realm of education (preschool through graduate levels) in an attempt to offer insight into some of the inequities we experience today in the classroom and beyond. By engaging in this conversation, the authors attempt to learn from prior experience…
In addition to the existing two-semester system, the option of a credit system was for the first time offered to the students of the secondary (high school) education program in Kuwait in 1978. Earlier attempts which aimed at the quantification of the academic effectiveness of the two programs of secondary education have shown contradictory and inconclusive results. This paper reports the findi…
Education is in the core of societal change in all its different forms-from kindergartens to vocational schools and lifelong learning. Education-understood as goal-oriented personal movement-re-structures personal lives both inside school and outside the school. This special issue stems from the Cultural Psychology of Education (Marsico Culture & Psychology, 21(4), 445-454, 2015a (See CR22), b …
This chapter is about bilingual special education. The joining of bilingual education with special education provides an interesting example of what should not happen in terms of educational reform and evolution (Skrtic 1991; Elmore 1996). However, the flawed interface between bilingual and special education in the United States provides the basis for a unique form of critical dialogue between …
Although HBCUs predate the Civil War, Lincoln University in Missouri offered the first journalism major in the 1940s. The number of schools offering majors in journalism and mass communication proliferated after the enactment of the major civil rights legislation in the mid 1960s. Despite low starting salaries for majors, at least 40--approximately 40 percent--HBCUs belong to the Black College …