Taking Teaching Seriously

Taking Teaching Seriously expands and enriches discussions about teacher preparation in the United States. Its authors describe the unique contexts for teacher preparation offered by liberal arts institutions and analyze the effects of these programs on their graduates and on K12 schools. They emphasize that the goals and conditions for teacher preparation differ from larger public institutions in several key respects including supervisor-student teacher relationships, philosophical foundations, and approaches to clinical fieldwork. Taken together, the essays provide compelling evidence that educational studies programs in liberal arts colleges and universities constitute a vital component of the teacher education system in the United States.

This highly readable book contains important lessons for us all - Katherine Schultz, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Christopher Bjork, Assistant Professor of Education at Vassar College, is author of Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy (Routledge 2004).D. Kay Johnston, Professor of Education Studies and Women's Studies at Colgate University, is author most recently of Educating for a Caring Society: Classroom Relationships and Moral Action (Teachers College Press 2006). Heidi Ross, Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Director of the East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University, is the author most recently of China Learns English (Yale University Press 1993).

William Wharton turns his microscopic gaze on his own life to narrate and scrutinize the untimely deaths of his daughter and her family. A moving story of one man's rage against death, and spiritual renewal. On August 3rd 1988, field burning caused a 23-car pile-up that claimed the lives of seven people, including William Wharton's daughter, Kate, her husband, and their two children. In EVER AFTER, William Wharton searches for meaning in this tragedy, and tries to put a stop to a dangerous agriculture practice. Written from the perspective of both father and daughter, EVER AFTER is inspiring and heart-breaking in equal measures.

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