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Preschool Teachers' Lives and Work focuses on preschool teachers as
people, what they do, and how they are affected by what they do.
Highly politicized and hotly debated, preschool today is
increasingly focused on comparatively narrow views of school
readiness and academic outcomes which are generally in opposition
to the broader view of readiness proposed by NAEYC. This powerful
book, based around interviews and data drawn primarily from Head
Start programs, illustrates the profound humanity of this
profession and underscores the pressing and insistent need for
greater investments in teachers' well-being.
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
The unique relationship between mentors and students informs the
art of teaching and enhances the intellectual vitality of higher
education and quality of teacher and student life. This collection
of original essays presents autobiographical vignettes of important
professors of our time. These essays reflect the appreciation of
the authors-now successful academics-for their teachers/mentors,
whose drive and creativity had such on influence on the careers of
their students. No other collection presents such an
autobiographical and biographical portrayal of college of education
faculty. The essays examine what it means to be a professor in
today's academia, with its erosion of the professoriate and the
emergence of a questionable entrepreneurial pragmatism. The writers
and their subjects explain their vision of the academic life
sustained by a community and perpetuated through the lives of their
teachers and their students, a tradition not only in teaching but
also in mentoring.
Preschool Teachers' Lives and Work focuses on preschool teachers as
people, what they do, and how they are affected by what they do.
Highly politicized and hotly debated, preschool today is
increasingly focused on comparatively narrow views of school
readiness and academic outcomes which are generally in opposition
to the broader view of readiness proposed by NAEYC. This powerful
book, based around interviews and data drawn primarily from Head
Start programs, illustrates the profound humanity of this
profession and underscores the pressing and insistent need for
greater investments in teachers' well-being.
Written for all those who are concerned about the plight of
children in America, most especially future school teachers,
Uncertain Lives tells the stories of 34 children, enrolled in a K-6
urban school. The tale told is one of children doing the best they
know how under trying life circumstances. Presenting the voices of
the children themselves. Robert Bullough puts a hopeful and
ultimately human face on what are otherwise grim statistics.
Providing hands-on information, this work is an in-depth case study
of the first year-and-a-half of a 7th grade teacher's experience.
Co-authored by Robert Bullough and Kerrie Baughman (the teacher who
was the subject of Bullough's classic 1989 study, First-Year
Teacher), "First-Year Teacher" Eight Years Later provides readers
with a rare opportunity to chart the development and difficulties
that Kerrie faced as she became an experienced teacher. This
ten-year collaboration presents both a valuable longitudinal
examination of Kerrie's teaching experience as well as a
provocative and unique account of how a teacher and teacher
educator learn from one another. Together they explore how to
master the daily grind of classroom life while maintaining a
measure of clarity about the moral center of the teaching craft.
Bullough and Baughman create a compelling narrative of their
journey, depicting the struggles and successes of their work
together to foster a mutual understanding of "what counts" as
beliefs change and experience accrues, of the meaning and
significance of "expertise," and of the importance of teacher
professionalism. The result is an honest, timely, and rich
collaboration that offers valuable knowledge of how teachers
develop and the means for encouraging teacher learning.
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