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Grant, Grace E. – Issues in Teacher Education, 2015
As president of the California Council on Teacher Education from 1994-1996, teacher educator Grace Grant reflects on the first conference she attended of the then California Council on the Education of Teachers in 1976 at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. The keynote speaker was Gary Fenstermacher, the then-director of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Conferences (Gatherings), Novels
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Patchen, Terri; Crawford, Teresa – Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
This study examines the relationship between epistemological beliefs and perceptions of practice through the analysis of teacher-generated metaphors. In a multilevel qualitative examination of the self-descriptive metaphors of 32 working teachers, the authors uncovered a dissonance between teachers' metaphors and their epistemological positions.…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Focus Groups, Figurative Language, Epistemology