Intern Teachers Using Currere": Discovering Education as a River

by Leslie L. Palmer

Overview

Intern Teachers Using Currere explores the ways in which the lived experience of using Currere to understand curriculum has pedagogical implications for teacher practice and teacher preparation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433171383
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	11/08/2019
Series:	Complicated Conversation: A Book Series of Curriculum Studies , #55
Edition description:	New
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Leslie L. Palmer’s experience includes teaching elementary, middle, and high school, as well as eight years as Director of Student Teaching for the St. Mary’s College Master of Arts in Teaching program. She holds a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, in teaching and learning, policy, and leadership.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments – Introduction – Catching the Currents of Currere to Discover Lived Curriculum – Currere: Running the Course of Lived Curriculum – Philosophical Currents That Guide the Phenomenological Exploration of Curriculum as Currere – Currere as Wellspring Toward Understanding Curriculum – Living Currere: Envisioning the Future, Returning to the Source, and Embracing the Present – Index.

Editorial Reviews

With the metaphorical force and tranquility of a river, you will be brought into this phenomenological journey with intern teachers using Currere to understand curriculum. The author is a creative navigator through the various tributaries of this metaphorical river who helps return her fellow travelers to the wellspring of their existence as teachers. This book is a must read for all teacher educators and teachers in preparation, as well as teachers in the field. Prepare for a phenomenal ride to what calls YOU to teach!” —Francine Hultgren, Professor and Chair, Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, University of Maryland

“Leslie L. Palmer’s phenomenological study of intern teachers using Currere is an extraordinary description of a teacher educator’s effort to bring deep insight and understanding to the learning of aspiring teachers. Palmer is a gifted writer, and this is a compelling story of her work and their learning to teach.’” —David Imig, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Foundation, Stanford; President Emeritus, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education; Professor of the Practice, University of Maryland

“This book offers educators a viable and exciting way to break the stranglehold testing has on public education. By focusing on the lived experience of both educator and student, Leslie L. Palmer offers us a way to more fully understand the power, joy, and complexity of what it means to be a teacher by addressing the pressing need to once again humanize education. This work invites us to cease defining children by test scores and shift our focus toward once again teaching the whole child with intention and with the vital awareness of the ‘lived curriculum’ that children experience in their classrooms each and every day.” —Michael S. Glaser, Professor Emeritus, St. Mary’s College of Maryland; Poet Laureate of Maryland 2004–2009; Board Member, Maryland Humanities, 2011–2018

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