An Arena for Educational Ideologies

Foreword ¿ John Chi-Kin Lee Introduction - Miriam Ben-Peretz Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Democracy in Classrooms: The Story of Democratic Teacher Education Dafna Granit-Dgany and Raviv Reichert Chapter 2: Educational Hyper-Ideology and The Test of Time Esther Yogev Chapter 3: Montessori Ideology and Practice in Teacher Education Jacqueline Cossentino Chapter 4: What Can Teacher Educators Learn from Italian Pre-Schools? Lella Gandini and Carolyn Edwards Chapter 5: Integrating Waldorf Education Principles with Traditional Teacher Education Gilad Goldshmidt Chapter 6: Undermining Teacher Education: Neo-Liberal Worldviews Shlomo Back Index About the Editors and Contributors

Miriam Ben-Peretz is professor Emerita of Education at the University of Haifa, former Dean of the School of Education, and recipient of the Israel Prize for Research in Education 2006, the AERA, Division K Legacy Award, the AERA Divison B Lifetime Achievement Award and the EMET Israel Prime Minister Prize for Educational Research. She is also an Elected fellow of the AERA since 2014. Sharon Feiman-Nemser is the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor of Jewish Education at Brandeis University where she founded the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education and the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program. She also served on the education faculties at the University of Chicago and Michigan State University. A pioneer in research on teacher learning, she has written extensively on teacher education, learning to teach, mentoring and new teacher induction. Teachers as Learners, a collection of her seminal writings, was published by Harvard Education Press (2012). She was the first recipient of the Margaret Lindsey Award for Outstanding Research from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (1996).