The Missing Links in Teacher Education Design

Developing a Multi-linked Conceptual Framework

Rather than promote a single teacher education design, this book discusses new ways to think about the problem. Key to such thinking is considering teacher education not independent elements but as a combination of links. This book offers four key links: conceptual ties across the university curriculum; theory-practice links between school and university settings; social-cultural links among the participants; and personal links that shape the identity of teacher educators.

Anne M. Phelan University of British Columbia, Canada An important question for
teacher education, then, is how to develop the capacity for discernment. . . [and]
the relationship between discernment, imagination and wise practice . . . . (Dunne
& Pendlebury, 2002, p. 211) CONTEXT OF THE TEACHER EDUCATION
PROGRAM The Master of Teaching (MT) Program at the University of Calgary,
Alberta, Canada is the focus of this chapter. The program is delivered over two
academic ...