Outlines principles that provide focus and challenge for those involved in English teacher education. Considers the essences of teaching that all teacher education programs should include. Presents the inquiry in the form of a dialogue. (HB)

Modern school administrators are finding flexible opportunities to pursue doctoral degrees online. Cyber institutions such as Walden University, University of Phoenix and Argosy University--as well as a few traditional universities that have forged into the electronic arena--can accommodate time-strapped educators no matter where they live, as…

This paper is a response to Richard Pring's "Reclaiming Philosophy for Educational Research," which appears in this issue. While it provides broad support for the case for the importance of philosophy in the study of education that Pring advances, it seeks to refine and to extend this. It does this through a consideration of three sets of claims.…

Using Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, and Cain's (1998) theory of identity and their concept of figured worlds, this article provides an overview of how twenty-four Mexican Americans came to produce Chicana/o Activist Educator identities. The desire to raise consciousness (teach for social justice "pero con ganas") and "give back to the [their]…

This article discusses a program designed to develop first-rate teacher educators. (PD)

This article suggests ways to improve the education of teacher educators. (PD)

This booklet is designed to render assistance to all educators engaged in planning in-service education sessions with their staff. Specifically, it offers a point of view on planning as a learnable activity and a reasonably complete how-to-do-it kit. The objectives of such an approach are to pinpoint specific planning difficulties associated with…

Alternative models for curriculum for the training of educators. (MM)

Although Nigeria understands the indispensability of English in its human and material development, sustainable development has continued to elude it because of its failure to develop bi-literacy in English and its Mother Tongues (MTs). The products of its school system cannot, with fluency, read and write in both. Examining why inter/intra…

Gives practical ideas for developing regional inservice programs for administrators. (GB)

Sixty self-selected in-service secondary teachers, working in conjunction with the West Virginia University teacher education program, formed the population from which the experimental and control group samples were drawn for this study. Experimental group subjects actively participated in 14 hours of intensive training in helping relationships as…

The author presents historical information on the education of adult educators. He discusses role theory, the basis of a program at Boston University, its applicability and implications. (MS)

Postulates a model for the doctoral education of social studies teacher educators and then contrasts it with existing practices. (RT)