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Arthur Bestor on Education of Teachers

Pages 423-448 | Published online: 30 Jan 2008

Notes

  • Richard Mitchell , The Graves of Academe ( Boston and Toronto : Little, Brown and Company , 1981 ).
  • James Kilpatrick , The Daily Oklahoman , December 21, 1981 , p. 14 .
  • The arts and sciences perspective on training of teachers may be found in such polemic books as the following: Arthur Bestor, The Restoration of Learning: A Process of Redeeming the Unfulfilled Promise of American Education ( New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1956 ); James D. Koerner, The Miseducation of American Teachers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963); Albert Lynd, Quackery in the Public Schools (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953); H.G. Rickover, American Education: A National Failure (New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1963); Mortimer Smith, Diminished Mind: A Study of Planned Mediocrity in Our Public Schools (New York: Greenwood Press, 1969).
  • Bestor , The Restoration of Learning , pp. 32 , 95–96.
  • Ibid. , pp. 84 – 85 88.
  • Ibid. , p. 56 .
  • Ibid. , pp. 29 – 30
  • Ibid. , p. 28 .
  • Ibid. , p. 80 .
  • Ibid. , p. 40 .
  • Ibid. , p. 51 .
  • Ibid. , p. 8 .
  • Ibid. , p. 78 .
  • Ibid. , p. 400 .
  • Ibid. , p. 411 .
  • Ibid. , p. 134 .
  • Ibid.
  • Ibid. , pp. 134 – 35
  • Ibid. , p. 36 .
  • Ibid.
  • Ibid. , pp. 20 – 21 55.
  • Ibid. , p. 7 .
  • According to Bestor, educationists are school administrators, state department of education officials, and professors of education. Professors of education are also pedagogues.
  • Bestor , The Restoration of Learning , p. 105 .
  • Ibid. , pp. 105 – 06
  • Ibid. , p. 116 .
  • Ibid.
  • Ibid. , pp. 84 – 97
  • Ibid. , pp. 115 – 16
  • Arthur Bestor , “The Education Really Needed for a Changing World,” The Harvard Educational Review 26 ( Winter 1957 ): 1 – 8
  • Bestor , The Restoration of Learning , pp. 296 – 97
  • Ibid. , p. 110 .
  • Ibid. , p. 80 .
  • Ibid. , p. 69 .
  • Ibid.
  • Ibid. , pp. 242 – 43
  • Ibid. , p. 73 .
  • Ibid. , p. 75 .
  • Ibid. , p. 68 .
  • Ibid. , p. 35 .
  • Ibid. , p. 81 .
  • Ibid. , p. 79 .
  • Ibid. , pp. 69 – 70
  • Ibid. , pp. 168 – 69
  • Ibid. , p. 78 .
  • Ibid. , p. 178 .
  • Ibid. , pp. 242 , 248–49.
  • Ibid. , p. 252 .
  • Ibid. , pp. 245 – 46
  • Ibid. , p. 247 .
  • Ibid. , pp. 248 , 251.
  • Ibid. , pp. 251 – 52
  • Ibid. , p. 253 .
  • Ibid. , pp. 270 – 71
  • Ibid. , p. 271 .
  • Ibid.
  • Ibid. , p. 162 .
  • Ibid. , p. 253 .
  • Brand Blanshard , “Education as Philosophy,” in Toward Liberal Education , ed. Louis G. Locke et al. ( New York : Rinehart and Company , 1948 ), p. 590 .
  • Jerome Bruner makes essentially the same point in Toward a Theory of Instruction ( Cambridge , Ma. : Belknap Press of Harvard University , 1966 ), p. 72 .
  • Brand Blanshard , The Uses of a Liberal Education and Other Talks to Students ( LaSalle , Il. : The Open Court Publishing Company , 1973 ), p. 384 .
  • Charles F. Donovan , “Tradition and Innovation in Teacher Education,” in Changing Dimension in Teacher Education, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Yearbook, 1967 ( Washington D.C. : The Association , 1967 ), p. 48 .
  • Alfred North Whitehead , The Aims of Education and Other Essays ( New York : The Free Press , 1967 ), p. 48 .
  • Charles E. Silberman , Crisis in the Classroom: The Remaking of American Education ( New York : Random House , 1970 ), p. 384 .
  • Martin Haberman and Asa G. Hilliard , “Implication for the Profession: The Threat of Deprofessionalizatlon: Myth or Fact?” in Strengthening the Education of Teachers, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Yearbook 1975 ( Washington , D.C. : The Association , 1975 ), p. 67 .
  • G. K. Hodenfield and T. M. Stinnet , The Education of Teachers ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J. : Prentice-Hall , 1961 ), pp. 140 – 41
  • Silberman , Crisis in the Classroom , p. 380 .
  • Christopher Lucas , “Teacher Education and Its Governance,” The Educational Forum 42 ( May 1978 ): 480 .
  • This sentence is a paraphrase of a statement made by Harry Broudy, “Criteria for the Professional Preparation of Teachers,” in School, Society, and the Professional Educator: A Book of Readings , ed. Frank H. Blackington III and Robert S. Patterson ( New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston , 1968 ), p. 185 .
  • Bestor , The Restoration of Learning , pp. 250 – 51
  • Jerome Bruner , The Process of Education ( Cambridge , Ma. : Harvard University Press , 1962 ), p. 18 .
  • Ibid. , p. 33 .
  • Merle L. Borrowman , The Liberal and Technical in Teacher Education: A Historical Survey of American Thought ( Westport , Ct. : Greenwood Press , 1977 ), p. 23 .
  • Gordon Allport , Pattern and Growth in Personality ( New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston , 1961 ), p. 107 .
  • As Phillip Jackson points out in his book, Life in Classrooms ( New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston , 1968 ), p. 10 ., teachers are not tutors working with one to three students. Teachers must learn to cope with large groups of children forcibly confined in a small area for six or seven hours a day five days a week.
  • George W. Denemark , “Teacher Education: Repair, Reform, or Revolution?” in Readings in the Foundations of Education: Commitment to Teaching , Vol. II , ed. James C. Stone and Frederick W. Scheneider ( New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Company , 1971 ), p. 605 .
  • John Dewey , “The Relation of Theory to Practice in Education,” in Third Yearbook, National Society for the Scientific Study of Education, Part 1 ( Bloom-ington , Il. : Public School Publishing Company , 1904 ), pp. 9 – 30
  • Merle B. Marks , “‘Research’ The Preservice Missing Link,'” Journal of Teacher Education 23 ( Winter 1972 ): 241 .
  • Dan G. Lortie , School Teacher: A Sociological Study ( Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 1975 ), p. 214 .
  • Bestor , The Restoration of Learning , p. 356 .
  • Ralph W. McDonald , “ Toward Professional Maturity ,” in Journey to Now 1946–61 ( Washington , D.C. : National Education Association of the United States , 1961 ), pp. 34 – 35
  • Max Lerner , “The Training of a Teacher Elite,” in Teacher Education for the Future, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education ( Chicago : AACTE , 1959 ) p. 17 .
  • Whitehead , The Aims of Education and Other Essays , p. 29 .

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