What Rough Beast: AESA and Teacher Preparation

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

As AESA enters the second half of its first century, questions of cultural disruption and societal fragmentation are reminiscent of the times out of which AESA was founded. Facing such troubled times, the curriculum reconceptualists progenitors of AESA called for curriculum theory to turn toward what had previously been dismissed by curriculum theory as too practical and too marginal. In a series of three papers, the possibilities for a similar return to the practical and the marginal through selected approaches to teacher education are discussed. Paper one suggests social studies teacher education as a model for maintaining the relevance of social foundations classes in teacher education. Paper two examines the effects the teacher education accreditation movement has had on the teaching of social foundations. Paper three argues alternative certification programs are the most fertile ground for an emphasis on social justice concerns in education.

Sub Track

• Teacher Education

Chair

• Richard Hartsell, University of South Carolina Upstate

Individual Presentations

• Toward a More Perfect Union: Social Studies Teacher Education as a Model for Social Foundations - Rebecca Mueller, University of South Carolina Upstate

• Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: Exploring Accreditation in Teacher Education - Sarah Hunt-Barron, University of South Carolina Upstate

• De-schooling Teacher Education: Preparing Teachers in the Lower Case - Richard Hartsell, University of South Carolina Upstate