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Reforming a College

The University of Tennessee Story

by Richard Wisniewski (Volume editor)
©2000 Textbook 203 Pages
Series: Higher Ed, Volume 4

Summary

Despite persistent calls for teacher education reform, can schools of education make the level of changes needed? Reforming a College describes what the faculty at one college accomplished despite the constraints endemic to higher education. The New College of Education at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville sought to change how the faculty work with one another, their students, and the profession they serve. What was done at Tennessee reveals what is possible – and often impossible – to achieve in institutions that extol educational change but do not reform their own practices.

Details

Pages
203
Year
2000
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820445519
Language
English
Keywords
Teacher education Higher education College reform Charter college
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2000. 203 pp.

Biographical notes

Richard Wisniewski (Volume editor)

The Editor: Richard Wisniewski is Professor and Dean Emeritus at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville. He has served on five education faculties and has been active in efforts to reform, re-create, or restructure colleges of education – the new «three R’s» for teacher educators. Dr. Wisniewski advocates charter colleges of education as a way of accelerating the reforms needed.

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