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Some Proposals

In: Teacher Education in America

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  • Christopher J. Lucas

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The claim that people aspiring to become elementary or secondary classroom instructors need formal preparation for their work, it is abundantly apparent, has yet to win universal acceptance at the close of the twentieth century. Every so often, an editorialist or a self-styled critic brandishing a book with an inflammatory title such as The Collapse of American Education, How Our Schools Are Failing and Why the Crisis Is Worsening will attract wide attention by rehearsing the claim that teacher education is bankrupt. Instructional acts are natural occurrences in the repertoire of human behaviors, runs the argument; and there were teachers long before someone seized upon the curious notion they needed to be trained in order to exercise abilities they—and practically everyone else—already possess.1

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  • Christopher J. Lucas, 1999. "Some Proposals," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Teacher Education in America, chapter 7, pages 249-291, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-07269-6_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-07269-6_7
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