The Doctoral Specialization in Teacher Education is suitable for doctoral students who have successfully completed a year of doctoral study and who have some P-12 teaching experience.  It is comprised of a set of five courses (including one “selective”) intended to be taken over two years. These courses examine the kinds of learning entailed in learning teaching; problems and contexts of, constraints on, and affordances for learning to teach, and the enterprise of teacher education itself. Guided practice in teacher education and empirical study of learning to teach, and the conduct of teacher education, are core elements of the specialization.

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