Secondary English Teacher Education in the United States

ISBN-13: 9781350032019 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 12/14/2017 Series: Reinventing Teacher Education Pages: 232 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d) Identifying key areas of teacher education that cross countries and disciplines, this book provides the first extensive research-based insight into how secondary English teachers are prepared at institutions of higher education in the United States of America (US) since the last major study in 1995. In the two decades since then, English teacher education programs have developed in contextually dependent ways that often have been driven by institutional, economic, social and political considerations.The authors provide an overview of their nationwide study of English teacher educators, which was conducted over a four-year period. They analyze the context under which teacher educators currently prepare pre-service English teachers in the US and support teacher educators in other countries to make comparisons