Winner of the ELATE Richard A. Meade Award 2018
Identifying key areas of teacher education that cross countries and disciplines, this book provides the first extensive research-based insight into how secondary English teachers are prepared at institutions of higher education in the United States of America (US) since the last major study in 1995. In the two decades since then, English teacher education programs have developed in contextually dependent ways that often have been driven by institutional, economic, social and political considerations.
The authors provide an overview of their nationwide study of English teacher educators, which was conducted over a four-year period. They analyze the context under which teacher educators currently prepare pre-service English teachers in the US and support teacher educators in other countries to make comparisons to their own unique historical and cultural settings.
The authors also offer a comprehensive evaluation of the content, practices and skills being taught to future teachers of English in university-based teacher preparation programs in the US. The book draws on evidence from a nationwide questionnaire, case studies of teacher educators in their respective programs, course syllabi and focus group interviews to focus on areas of instruction that resonate with teacher educators in countries where English is the dominant language of communication. These areas include:
- field experiences
- standards and assessment
- teaching literacy to integrate reading and writing
- working with English language learners to address cultural and linguistic diversity
- new technologies in English education
Brennan, Marie: - Marie Brennan is Professor of Education at Victoria University, Australia, and a former Dean of Education at the University of South Australia. She is currently leading the final year of a major Australian Research Council grant (LP100200499) Renewing the teaching profession in regional areas through community partnerships and participating in the Australian study of the Work of Teacher Educators (WOTE).
Caughlan, Samantha: - Samantha Caughlan is an independent scholar in teacher education.
Hallman, Heidi L.: - Heidi L. Hallman is Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, University of Kansas, USA.
Nuttall, Joce: - Joce Nuttall is Amo Matua Executive Dean in the Faculty of Education and Professor at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Orchard, Janet: - Janet Orchard is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol, UK.
Pasternak, Donna L.: - Donna L. Pasternak is Professor of English Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
Renzi, Laura: - Laura Renzi is an associate professor of English and coordinator of the English BSED program at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Rush, Leslie S.: - Leslie S. Rush is Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Education, University of Wyoming, USA.
Smagorinsky, Peter: - Peter Smagorinsky is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia, USA, and serves as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He has won a number of internationally recognised awards, including, the National Council of Teachers of English Distinguished Service Award in 2017, the International Federation for the Teaching of English Award in 2018, Distinguished Scholar at the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy in 2018 and the Horace Mann League Outstanding Public Educator Award in 2020.
