R&L Education
Pages: 248
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978-1-57886-203-0 • Paperback • February 2005 • $73.00 • (£56.00)
R. Lee Smith is associate dean and associate professor in special education at Indiana University-South Bend. He has published in the area of teacher education and special education. Denise Skarbek is an assistant professor in special education at Indiana University-South Bend.James Hurst is a faculty member of the Counseling and Human Services program at Indiana University-South Bend. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, and he teaches graduate counseling courses in counseling theory, ethics, psychopatholgy, and group counseling.
Chapter 0 3 A Model for Defining the Construct of Caring in Teacher Education
Chapter 1 1 A Brief Historical Context for Dispositions in Teacher Education
Chapter 2 2 A Contemporary Rationale for Dispositions in Education
Chapter 4 4 Dispositions and Multicultural Education
Chapter 5 5 School Counselors as Models and Teachers of Dispositional Attitudes and Behaviors: Within and Beyond the School Setting
Chapter 6 6 Dispositions in the Helping Professions
Chapter 7 7 Using Moral Development Theory to Promote the Growth of Ethical Dispositions withing K-12 Students
Chapter 8 8 Exploring Dispositions in Teacher Education Through Children's Literature
Chapter 9 9 Teaching and Evaluating Dispositions in a Preservice Education Course
Chapter 10 10 Exploring Dispositions in Student Teaching and Field Experience
Chapter 11 11 Teaching Critical Thinking Skills and Dispositions: A Graduate Case Study
Chapter 12 12 Unleashing the Dispositional Imperative: Legal and Policy Implications
Chapter 13 13 Teacher Education and the Benedictine Tradition
Chapter 14 14 Dispositionsas Habits of Body, Mind, and Spirit: Quaker and Native American Perspectives
Chapter 15 15 Dispositions and Teacher Beliefs: A Heuristic to Inform Efforts Toward Improving Educational Outcomes
Part 16 Appendix A: Definition of Dispositions by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
Part 17 Appendix B: Standards and Related Dispositions for Beginning Teacher Licensing from the Interstate New Teacher Assessment & Support Consortium (INTASC)
Part 18 Index
Part 19 About the Contributors
...[gives] techniques for applying concepts to multicultural education, using school counselors as models of behavior, using moral development theory and children's literature, enriching student teaching, learning legal and policy implications, and learning from alternative perspectives.
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