Hybridized teacher education programs in NYC: A missed opportunity?

Authors

  • Angus Shiva Mungal University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v23.2096

Keywords:

Alternative teacher preparation programs, schools of education, partnerships, innovation, qualitative research

Abstract

This qualitative study describes the development of hybrid teacher preparation programs that emerged as a result of a “forced” partnership between university-based and alternative teacher preparation programs in New York City. This hybrid experiment was a short-lived, yet innovative by-product of a somewhat pragmatic arrangement between Teach for America, NYC Teaching Fellows and various universities to meet state requirements for credentialization. The institutions benefited from the arrangement but noteworthy here is the documentation of how the teacher education programs informed each other and potentially created a richer educational experience for teacher candidates than either of the programs had alone. With the development of Relay, a stand-alone, alternate graduate school, the partnership, despite its early promise, was ended. With all of its challenges, this forced partnership was characterized by creative and competitive tensions, rather than what ultimately became two parallel teacher education systems largely isolated and in competition with each other.

 

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Author Biography

Angus Shiva Mungal, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

Angus Shiva Mungal is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at The University of Texas at El Paso. He currently teaches and facilitates doctoral courses in Qualitative Research, and Policy Analysis in Education. He also facilitates a course on Leadership and Advocacy that sends researchers into the community to work with non-profit organizations that deal with marginalized groups. His research focuses are alternative teacher and leadership preparation, advocacy leadership, issues of social justice and educational policy as well as critical discourse analysis, and market ideology.

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Published

2015-09-10

How to Cite

Mungal, A. S. (2015). Hybridized teacher education programs in NYC: A missed opportunity?. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23, 89. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v23.2096

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Section

New Public Management and the New Professional