Alternative Certification: Can the Problems of Urban Education Be Resolved by Traditional Teacher Education?.

Haberman, Martin

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Publication Date: 1992

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Alternative Certification: Can the Problems of Urban Education Be Resolved by Traditional Teacher Education?

Haberman, Martin

Teacher Education and Practice, v8 n1 p13-27 Spr-Sum 1992

To adequately prepare effective teachers for urban schools, traditional university-based programs of teacher education need to make serious structural and content changes. This article offers 16 assertions about specific changes that are needed and maintains that, in many alternative certification programs, most of the 16 assertions are implemented. (IAH)

Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development Schools, Schools of Education, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Role, Urban Schools

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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