Cultural-historical perspectives on teacher education and development - Edited by Viv Ellis et al

This book presents a collection of research articles brought together by the editors to illustrate how cultural-historical perspectives on learning and development can be used to analyze current problems with pre-service teacher education: incongruities between the university setting and school contexts, privileging of certain forms of learning over others in different sites (i.e., traditional pedagogy, liberal pedagogy), and determining how knowledge is gained across a variety of settings and pedagogical beliefs. Furthermore, the editors suggest that cultural-historical perspectives offer a helpful way to conceptualize teacher growth and change over time and across settings, and point to possible designs for a different future. education review // reseñas educativas editors: gene v glass gustavo e. fischman melissa cast-brede