Helen DeVitt Jones Teacher Education Lecture. Reform of Teacher Education: A Case of Traveling Ideas, by Dr. Lynn Paine — Sponsored by Helen DeVitt Jones Endowment Fund in Teacher Education, Texas Tech University

Session Type: Seminar

Abstract

Helen DeVitt Jones Teacher Education Lecture is an annual event at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association sponsored by Helen DeVitt Jones Endowment Fund in Teacher Education, College of Education, Texas Tech University. In the event, an eminent scholar in the field of teacher education is invited to give a lecture on the important issue of research in teacher education. A reception will follow after the lecture. The lecture and reception are open for everyone attending at the AERA Annual Meeting. Please pass this invitation to your professional colleagues and graduate students to attend this lecture. Lecture Teacher education has long been viewed as serving local or national needs. Historically teachers prepared the next generation of a community. In some countries, although not the US, teaching is part of the national civil service and teachers are charged with helping develop the nation. As a result, in many countries ideas animating teacher education, as well as its governance, have been nationally defined. Today, however, teacher education has become one of the prominent topics within globally circulating discourses. How do ideas about improving teacher education travel, and why and how have new global voices come to have the important influence they do in conceptualizing where teacher education should take place, what teacher education should focus on, and how it should be assessed? Here the lecture critically explores cases of ideas related to teacher education that are “traveling” internationally and argue for the need to develop local enactments of teacher preparation that nonetheless support global competence. Lecturer This year’s lecturer is Dr. Lynn W. Paine. Dr. Paine is Professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Associate Dean for International Studies in the College of Education at Michigan State University. Much of her scholarship has involved the comparative study of teachers, teaching and teacher education. She co-directed National Science Foundation-funded studies that included a five-country comparative case study of policies and practices that support beginning teacher learning and a follow-up US-based study of design issues in science and math teacher induction. Collaborations with US, Japanese and Chinese colleagues examined the knowledge entailments of those engaged in facilitating practice-based professional development. She has worked on large cross-national studies, such as the IEA TEDS-M study, smaller international multi-sited studies of mentored teacher learning, and ethnographically informed studies of teacher education reform. Over the years she has conducted intensive field work in China, the UK and the US, focusing on both policies and practices of teacher learning. Dr. Paine is currently studying circulating notions of teaching and teacher education in the context of globalization and how international research influences policy and practice. Recent publications include: “Missing voices and possible dialogues: Problems and possibilities for teacher education” and “Teachers and teaching in the context of globalization” for AERA’s 5th edition of the Handbook of Research on Teaching. A teacher educator, she is a member of the teaching faculty in MSU’s Global Educator Cohort Program. As the associate dean, Dr. Paine supports MSU’s College of Education international collaborations in research, international institutional partnerships and exchange, internationalization of the curriculum, and global outreach.

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• Jian Wang, Texas Tech University