Essays on Teaching Education and the Inner Drama of Teaching : Where Troubles Meet Issues.

Front Cover -- Essays on Teaching Education and the Inner Drama of Teaching: Where Troubles Meet Issues -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Essays in Part I -- Essays in Part II -- PART I NEOLIBERALISM AND TEACHING EDUCATION -- Chapter 1 Place, Fast Time, and Identity: University Teaching and the Neoliberal Threat -- Introduction -- The Social Location of Teacher Education -- Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Education -- Expenses and Expenditures -- Effects: Place, Cyber-space, and Identity -- Time: Hurried and Harried -- Capital Accumulation and Compromised Virtue -- Unseen Factors and the Critique of Neoliberalism -- Chapter 2 Looking Back on 40 Years of Teaching Education: A Personal Essay -- Introduction -- Technical Views of Teaching and Teacher Effectiveness: The 1970s -- Teacher Education at Risk: The 1980s -- Professionalism, Reflection, and a Changing Context: Toward the 1990s -- Changing Field Experience: The 1990s -- Teacher Knowledge and Accreditation: Moving Through the 1990s -- A Full-scale Federal Invasion: Into the Twenty-first Century -- NCLB: The New Century -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Toward Reconstructing the Narrative of Teacher Education: A Rhetorical Analysis of Preparing Teachers -- Introduction -- Agents and Acts -- Teacher Education: The Scene -- Cluster Analysis -- Science, Research, and Researcher -- Order/Disorder -- Training/Education -- Aligned/Unaligned -- Large Scale/Small Scale -- Motives: Scientism and a Different Narrative -- Chapter 4 Against Best Practice: Uncertainty, Outliers, and Local Studies in Educational Research -- Introduction -- The Roots of an Ambition: The Royal Society and Political Arithmetic -- John Dewey, Uncertainty, and a Science of Education -- Problems of Verification and "Best Practice".

On Outliers, Educational Research, and Better Practice -- Local Studies and Validity -- Conclusion -- PART II THE INNER DRAMA OF TEACHING -- Chapter 5 Getting Motivation Right: The Call to Teach and Teacher Hopefulness -- Introduction -- Teaching as a Calling -- Hope and the Hope Scale -- The Study -- Research Context -- Participants -- Teaching Instruments -- Analyses -- Results -- Calling and Hope Relationship -- Years of Teaching Experience -- Discussion -- Teacher Calling -- Teacher Hopefulness -- The Teacher Calling and Hopefulness Relationship -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Theorizing Teacher Identity: Exploring Self-narratives and Finding Place in an Audit Society -- Introduction -- Analytic Approach and Chapter Organization -- Theorizing Identity: Elements of Psychosocial Constructivism -- The Story Form -- Evolving Stories: Evolving Identities and Imagoes -- Narrative Tone -- Memory and Autobiographical Knowledge -- Stories that Can and Cannot be Told -- A Complementary Second Lens: The Life Course -- Auditing: Living and Writing in Higher Education and in the Schools -- Mr Kent's Story: Plot Lines of Teaching in an Audit Society -- Identity Revealed in Mr Kent's Narrative: A Close Reading -- Story Plot -- Personal Ideology -- Challenge of Coherence and Change -- Tone -- Memory/Periodicity: Event-specific Knowledge -- Social Pathways, Turning Points, and Anchoring Myths -- Strategies for Attaining Narrative Coherence -- New Imagoes -- Cohorts and Generations -- More Story Elements -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Teaching and Learning with Parables: Reimagining the Self and the World -- Introduction -- On Parables -- A Missing Story Form: Parables and Professional Education -- Three Parables -- The Storm -- The Sower -- The Fish and the Turtle -- Reimagining Teaching: Parables and Self-understanding -- Chapter 8 Teachability and Vulnerability.

Introduction -- Study Focus -- Data Collection and Analysis -- Patterns in the Dataset -- Results: Case Study of Mrs Eddington, Allie, and Katherine -- Needs and Differences -- More Desperate Measures -- A Question and a Hug -- A Christmas Break -- Katherine -- Self-Confirmation, Transcendence, and Positioning -- Self-confirmation -- Expertise and Self-transcendence -- Positioning -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 An Inquiry into Empathy and Teaching: Is Empathy All It Is Cracked up to Be? -- Introduction -- An Empathy Deficit: "Emma Is Just Not a Good Fit" -- Definitions and Expectations -- Measurement Problems -- Empathy and Distress -- Empathic Inference and Accuracy -- Emma and Empathy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 Light and Dark Humor and the Inner Drama of Teaching -- Introduction -- On Understanding Humor -- Theories of Humor -- Incongruity and Cognitive Shifts -- Responses and Strategies -- Humor: Light and Dark -- The Passions of Humor -- Humor and Creativity -- Cost/Benefit Analysis -- Gauging Teacher and Culture Well-being -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Hope, Happiness and Seeking Eudaimonia -- Introduction -- On Hope -- Teacher-Student Hope -- Qualities and Characteristics -- On Happiness -- Connections of Hope to Happiness -- Kinds of Happiness -- On Cultures -- Cultures of Unhappiness -- Cultures of Hope and Happiness -- Postscript -- References -- Index.

Challenges teacher educators face coupled with select aspects of teachers' genuine experiences of teaching, is an area that has been neglected and is often under appreciated. Essays on Teaching Education and the Inner Drama of Teaching comprises 11 essays that address and illuminate the place where troubles and issues, biography and history meet.

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