The Politics of Alternative Teacher Certification

by Eran Tamir

Alternative teacher certification has been in the midst of heated debates in the U.S. since the 1980s. At the core of this debate are opposing views and contradicting interests of teacher unions, teacher educators, states, districts, and the federal government concerning the preferred nature of teacher knowledge, and professionalism and structural tensions about who should control and regulate the teaching profession. Employing Bourdieu's notions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415879442
• ISBN13: 9780415879446
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages