Recent accountability policies seek to “grade” teacher preparation programs by the teaching evaluations of their graduates. This article addresses the problematic nature of the linear thinking underlying such reforms by examining the construction of teaching practices of Mauro, a first-year secondary science teacher who taught environmental and earth sciences. Drawn from a larger data set, the ...

In applied linguistics, washback, or backwash, refers to the influence of tests on teaching and learning. Though there is now a large body of research investigating the impact of tests on educational processes and outcomes, the possible effect of language tests on the psychological environment of language classrooms remains underexplored. This study examined the effect of IELTS on the classroom...

In this special issue, we present different perspectives from a documentary project on curricular epistemicide. We view curriculum epistemicide —the annihilation of curriculum—as an embodied process. It limits ways knowing, questioning, and envisioning the world, it constricts multiplicity erases identity culture. Authors within volume responded to two requests: 1) they examined some form epist...

The reports of several national commissions, like the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF, 1996) and the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century (NCMST, 2000), have urged higher education institutions to reevaluate traditional practices in teacher education and transform or develop new teacher preparation programs to remedy the major ...

The Physics Teacher ◆ Vol. 49, February 2011 DOI: 10.1119/1.3543579 ment. In its original version, designed as a self-study online lesson for science teacher preparation, it focuses mostly on a conceptual approach to the study of lenses and how they form images. In addition, a step-by-step derivation of the thin lens equation is provided. In the following, we will describe the different element...

Teacher education is deemed to play a critical role in revolutionizing any education system. As a result, pre-service teacher education has received considerable attention in education systems world over. In the context of Iran, the process of teacher education has not been properly implemented and following their being recruited teachers would go directly to classes, without possessing adequat...