Document Type
Introductory Essay
Abstract
This is a particularly challenging time for public education. There has been a coordinated, incessant attack on public education on just about every front, including challenges to its public purposes. Those who subscribe to neo-liberalism seek purposes associated with free-market reforms, such as viewing students as customers and for-pay educational services. The attacks on public education include a national narrative challenging educational professionalism, creativity, and responsiveness to the tasks educators undertake and issues they address, advocating instead for research-based and scripted curricula and controlled instruction with direction to maintain fidelity to what is prescribed. These attacks also include an over-reliance on standardized assessments as the final and most important arbiter of what constitutes evidence of student learning.
Genre/Form
articles
Recommended Citation
Rios, Francisco
(2012)
"The Future of Colleges of Education,"
Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 6:
No.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol6/iss1/1
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
College-school cooperation; Universities and colleges--United States; Education--United States; Knowledge and learning-United States; Educators--United States; Democracy and education--United States; Multicultural education--United States
Geographic Coverage
United States
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Type
Text