This article creates a conversation surrounding teacher education and the ongoing need to relearn, reeducate, and understand social hierarchies in the classroom. Drawing on the concepts of culturally relevant pedagogy and critical Whiteness, this article discusses the pedagogical biases that exist for White teachers working with communities of…

The necessity for establishing links between school mathematics and students' personal lives and cultures, as enshrined in the ethnomathematics program, is being recognized and investigated in different regions across the globe. However, a comprehensive understanding of the antecedents that drive the integration of ethnomathematical perspectives…

The rich mosaic of U.S. demographics contains multiple languages, cultures, and belief systems. Yet, the historical legacy of an old, white supremacist "master narrative" continues to dominate our political, social, and educational systems. The authors of this paper are educators who teach in either K-12 classrooms or at the university…

The article analyzes global trends in the development of teacher education with the aim to improve the education system in Ukraine and presents a comparative and pedagogical study on the concepts of teacher education development in Europe, in particular Great Britain and Germany. It was found that conceptual and methodological fundamentals of…

Seemingly comfortable in my physical education teacher education (PETE) role as a critical pedagogue, I was abruptly jolted into considering post-paradigmatic possibilities through participation in a collaborative project that explored shifting conceptualisations of knowledge and learning in initial teacher education (ITE). The project sought to…

Over the last three decades neoliberal government policies have spread successfully around the world with disastrous effects on the social infrastructures of many countries. Neoliberal policies move vast amounts of public money into private hands increasing the gap between rich and poor and decimating social support services for the majority of…

Background/Context: The view of philosophy of education as "practical philosophy" initiated by Wilfred Carr has been a focus of recent educational discourses. What "practical" means here is closely associated with the educative aspect of "philosophical practice" itself. This article attempts to explore another educative aspect of philosophical…

The debate concerning who teachers are and what they are supposed to do continues with similar fervor as 100 years ago. In today's political climate, there is a resurgence in essentialism (a focus on traditional instruction and teacher-led curricula). As our nation's teachers face the demands of accountability standards imposed by recent…

This paper outlines an approach to training teachers in a repertoire of behaviors thought essential to humanistic teaching. Exercises necessary to give students a reasonable mastery of desired teaching behaviors are provided. The outline contains the following tasks: community-building exercises; definitions of nonjudgemental, acceptant,…

Critical analysis of an article by Doyle Watts that was a criticism of an earlier article by Arthur W. Combs. (MLF)

Some misconceptions surrounding the question of a behavioral or an anti-behavioral methodology for instructional psychology are examined. A behavioral approach is recommended in the absence of viable operationalized alternatives. (Editor)

The goal of teacher education should be the production of a skilled, humane, self-directed promoter of learning, who can continually adapt and innovate in a changing world. (MB)

From the perspective of perceptual psychology the goal of educational psychology is to educate students who, freed to discover the personal meaning of information and apply it to problem solving situations throughout the teacher education program, begin the process of becoming effective teachers. (RC)

Criticizes Arthur W. Combs's "Teacher Education: The Person in the Process," published in the April 1978 issue of this journal, and submits that teacher education is a process of developing highly trained and skilled professionals and that the procedure should be well-planned and designed, with specific outcomes produced. (Author/MLF)

Pre- and post-student teaching scores of student teachers in secondary education were compared in terms of a continuum of humanistic to custodial ideology of pupil control. It was found that student teachers became significantly more custodial after student teaching and that males were more custodial than females both before and after student…