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Nurturing The Development Of Teacher Change Agents Within A Teacher Education Program, Barbara Ruben
Nurturing The Development Of Teacher Change Agents Within A Teacher Education Program, Barbara Ruben
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The American education system has two daunting challenges. First, citizens need to be able to function in an interdependent world. Second, public schools' demographics have changed dramatically. Schools are failing to reach many students, particularly children of color and poverty. Schools must change to meet the needs of 21st century students. Without teachers' openness to change, effective educational reform win fail. Schools of education must prepare the next generation of teachers to be change agents who will implement school reform to meet the significantly different requirements of 21st century students.
This study examined how one graduate teacher education …