Responsive or Visionary: The Role of Schools of Education in Shaping Educational Outcomes for All America's Children

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Governmental policies and federal/state funding are key components to the educational landscape for schools of education, frequently both enhancing and inhibiting the capacity to prepare educational leaders. This session explores the ways schools of education position themselves within this context. Should researchers create programmatic possibilities that align with governmental policies? Should they generate new visions aligned with research but differing from governmental visions? What are the risks for education schools, students, faculty, and school communities if new visions for pedagogy and practice differ from federal mandates? In this session, education leaders discuss their visions of how Schools of Education might position themselves in pedagogy, research, and practice in a climate that increasingly diminishes the need for professional preparation in education.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Patricia Albjerg Graham, Harvard University

Participants

• Prudence L. Carter, Brown University

• Kathryn B. Chval, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Megan Duff, University of Pittsburgh

• Valerie Kinloch, University of Pittsburgh

• David F. Labaree, Stanford University

• Priscilla Wohlstetter, Teachers College, Columbia University