Book chapter
The History and Historiography of Teacher Preparation in the United States: A Synthesis, Analysis, and Potential Contributions to Higher Education History
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, pp.405-458
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, Springer Netherlands
01/04/2013
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5836-0_9
Abstract
Although one of higher education’s oldest functions, teacher preparation is peripheral in scholarship on the history of colleges and universities. This chapter highlights the collective richness of and identifies gaps that remain in the historiography of three distinct time periods in the history of teacher preparation: “Beginnings” from the 1820s through the 1880s, “Transitions” from the 1890s through the 1930s, and “Upgrading Amid Disfavor” from the 1940s into the twenty-first century. The chapter then interrogates the marginal position of teacher education in the historiography of higher education, demonstrating that looking seriously at teacher preparation is essential for advancing scholarship on underrepresented groups of students, and on the roles of the variety of nineteenth-century institutions and the twentieth-century institutional hierarchy in American higher education. Teacher education has been a core element of higher education since its inception in the USA; it must come in from the historiographical periphery.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The History and Historiography of Teacher Preparation in the United States: A Synthesis, Analysis, and Potential Contributions to Higher Education History
- Creators
- Christine A. Ogren - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, pp.405-458
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands; Dordrecht
- Series
- Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-5836-0_9
- ISSN
- 0882-4126
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/04/2013
- Academic Unit
- Educational Policy and Leadership Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984374337502771
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