Two Visions of Teaching and Teacher Education for the Twenty-First Century

Abstract

Currently there is an intense debate that is taking place in many parts of the world about the kind of teaching and teacher education that should define education in the twenty‐ first century. In this paper, I outline the main ideas at issue in these debates and offer my analysis of how we should seek to resolve the current controversies and the jurisdictional challenge that colleges and universities are now facing to their authority to offer teacher education programs (Grossman, 2008). The debates that I describe are concerned with the most basic questions about teaching and teacher education such as the nature of the role for which we are preparing teachers, who should prepare them, when and where should this preparation take place, and what should be the content of the preparation program.