Beyond Hysteria: Constructing New Narratives of Teachers and Teaching in the United States

Authors

  • Jacqueline Edmondson Pennsylvania State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v5i15.184728

Keywords:

Standardized Testing, Teacher Education, Critical Theory, Sociological Imagination

Abstract

This essay considers the influence of standardized testing in the construction of teachers in the United States. It calls on teacher educators to organize against neoliberal influences and create new narratives of what it means to be a teacher. 

Author Biography

Jacqueline Edmondson, Pennsylvania State University

Jacqueline Edmondson is associate vice president and associate dean for undergraduate education and professor of education at the Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA, USA).

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Published

2014-10-15

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 15 (2014)

Section

Special Report

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