Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Schools of education are undergoing dramatic changes in what they are expected to do and what kinds of work faculty should do and how they should be rewarded. This book discusses changes that are currently taking place and considers what reforms are necessary, offering provocative analyses about issues such as tenure, the role of non-tenure faculty, and the overall mission of schools of education for the twenty-first century.
Contributors include James Soto Antony, Melissa S. Anderson, James C. Hearn, Judith Glazer Raymo, Philo Hutcheson, Mary M. Kennedy, Arthur Levine, Yvonna S. Lincoln, Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers, Edward Taylor, William G. Tierney, and Sarah E. Turner.
Synopsis
William G. Tierney is the Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California. Among his many books are Promotion and Tenure: Community Socialization in Academe (coauthored with Estela Mara Bensimon) and Representation and the Text: Re-Framing the Narrative Voice (coedited with Yvonna S. Lincoln), both published by SUNY Press.
Table of Contents
The public responsibility of public schools of education / Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers -- Incentives for scholarship in education programs / Mary M. Kennedy -- Resisting reform: tenure, productivity, and the public school crisis / Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Faculty of education in a period of systemic reform / William G. Tierney -- The evolving production functions of schools of education / Sarah E. Turner -- clinical faculty in schools of education: using staff differentiation to address disparate goals / James C. Hearn, Melissa S. Anderson -- Professors of education and academic freedom: uncharted waters / Philo Hutcheson -- The fragmented paradigm: women, tenure, and schools of education / Judith Glazer-Raymo -- Graduate student socialization and its implications for the recruitment of African American education faculty / James Soto Antony, Edward Taylor.