DOCUMENT RESUME ED 343 881 SP 033 682 AUTHOR Warren, Thomas, Ed. TITLE A View from the Top: Liberal Arts Presidentson Teacher Education. INSTITUTION Association of Independent Liberal ArtsColleges for Teacher Education. REPORT NO ISBN-0-8191-7981-7 PUB DATE 90 NOTE 177p. AVAILABLE FROM University Press of America, Inc., 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706. PUB TYPE Collected Works - General (020) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS College Faculty; *College Presidents;*College Role; Elementary Secondary Education; Excellence in Education; Futures (of Society); Higher Education; *Institutional Mission; *Liberal Arts; Private Colleges; *Teacher Education Programs; *Teaching (Occupation) IDENTIFIERS Professionalism; Reform Efforts ABSTRACT This monograph presents articles written bycollege presidents about teacher education in liberalarts settings. The publication is organized into 16 chapters (alphabeticalby institution) as follows: "LiberalArts College: The Right Crucibles for Teacher Education" (John T. Dahlquist,Arkansas College); "Teacher Education: Liberal Arts Colleges'Unique Contribution" (Thomas Tredway, Augustana College);"Presidential Involvement in Teacher Education" (Harry E. Smith, Austin College);"Dollars and Sense in Educating Teachers" (Roger H. Hul).,Beloit College/Union College); "Restoring the Balance" (Paulj. Dovre, Concordia College); "Small Is Beautiful: Teacher Education inthe Liberal Arts Setting" Oactor E. Stoltzfus, Goshen College);"Participatory Management: A Success Story" (Bill Williams, Grand Canyon University);"Teacher Education: A Vision fcr the Future (Martha E.Church, Hood College); "Ornaments of Society" (John H. Jacobson, Hope College);"Teacher Preparation, College, and the Real World" (H.George Anderson, Luther College); "Learning and theElementary Teacher" (Roland Dille, Moorhead State University); "Teacher Educationat NCE/NLU: Retrospect and Prospect" (Orley R. Herron, National-LouisUniversity); "Teacher Education at North Park College" (David G.Horner, North Park College and Thcological Seminary); "The LiberalArts College and the Challenge of Teacher Education" (John B.Slaughter, Occidental College); "American Education at theCrossroads" (Bob R. Agee, Oklahoma Baptist University); and "Rediscoveringthe Teacher" (P. Michael Timpane, Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity). 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Jacobson Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A View from the top : liberal arts presidents on teacher educatiim / TIliunas Warren, editor. p. cm. TeachersTraining ofUnited States. 2. Education, t lumanisti':---United States. I. Warren, Thomas, I 939_ I I.Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education. L.132 ft5.V54 1990 370..7 I '0973---de2090-44787 C P ISBN 0 8191- -7980-9 (alk. paper) ISBN 0..8191-7981-7 ( phk. : alk. paper) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of OTMoo American National Standard for Information Sciences----Permanenee of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48I 984. ce) Contents Foreword from the President of the Association o: Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education Foreword from the President of Dartmouth College vi Preface viii Introduction 1 Contributors (Alphabetical by institution) John T. Dahlquist (Arkansas College) Liberal Arts College: The Right Crucibles for Teacher Education 7 Thomas Tredway (Augustana College) Teacher Education: Liberal Arts Colleges' Unique Contribution 16 Harry E. Smith (Austin College) Presidential involvement in Teacher Education 21 Roger H. Hull (Beloit College/Union College) Dollars and Sense in Educating Teachers ...30 Paul J. Dovre (Concordia College) Restoring the Balance 36 C- O Victor E. Stoltzfus (Goshen College) Small is Beautiful: Teacher Education in the Liberal Arts Seta; 44 Bill Williams (Grand Canyon University) Participatory Management: A Success Story .56 Martha E. Church (Hood College) Thacher Education: A Vision for theFuture..65 John H. Jacobson (Hope College) Ornaments of Society 73 H. George Anderson (Luther College) Thacher Preparation, College, and the Real World 79 Roland Dille (Moorhead State University) Learning and the Elementary Thacher 89 Orley R. Herron (NationalLouis University) Teacher Education at NCE 1 NLU: Retrospect and Prospect 97 David G. Horner (North Park College & Theological Seminary) Teacher Education at North Park College ..108 John B. Slaughter (Occidental College) The Liberal Arts College and the Challenge of Teacher Education 118 Bob R. Agee (Oklahoma Baptist University) American Education at the Crossroads ....129 P Michael Timpane (Teachers College,Columbia University) Rediscovering the Teacher 139 About the Contributors and Their Institutions .149 iv 6 Foreword Foreword The Association of Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Educa- tion exists as a voice for teacher education in liberal arts settings. We have a responsibility to speak internally to our own administrators and faculty as well as externally to those who do not know us well. Our publications efforts are designed to meet these goals. This first effort in a projected series of monographs is entitled A View from the Top and presents articles by several of our presidents and others. Some of their voices reflect the ideals and values of their respective institutions. Others share experiences that have proven successful in these special set- tings. Still others are hardnosed and pragmatic in discussing teacher preparation as well as education in the wider world. All recognize the importance of seveall elements in provid- ing quality education. These include the importance of a liberal education, the value of mentoring by faculty who like teaching and show it, the sense of community thatists in independent liberal arts colleges, and the importance of a sense of mission in teacher education. It is our hope that this monograph will inspire readers to examine their own institutions critically and to speak out loudly and clearly ab.)ut the values that guide and strengthen teacher education. Ann Converse Shelly President, AILACTE 1989 1990 A View from the Top Foreword Froma College President... your critics will be looking to learn whetheryou put your ambition, yourenergy and your education in the service of choices that confirm theirdarkest suspicions. They will be looking to learn whetheryou choose, in the poet Philip Larkin's words, merelyto "listen to money singing." Larkin wrote: I listen to money singing. It's likelooking down From long french windows ata provincial town, The slums, the canal, the churchesornate and mad In the eveningsun. It is i tensely sad None of us who knowyou well believes that you will, in fact, claim your adulthood by theintensely sad and profoundly banal act of choosing to "listento money singing." You have the Gpportunity to confoundyour critics by making choices worthy of your talents andyour idealism; choices that will make the common good your own. I should like tosuggest to you one such choice. I would haveyou, as citizens, support in every possible way excellence in elementary and secondaryschool teaching. In perhaps the finest autobiographyby an American, Henry Adams deliberatedupon the nature and purposes of edu In one of his noblestsentences, he celebrated the importance of the teacher: "A teacher affectsetunity, he cannever tell where his influence stops." Adams may have tested the limitsof metaphor when he linked teachers to eternity, buthe got it right in characterizing the influence of teachers.Teacherslike parentsformour minds, enlargeour vision, and elevate our aspirations. By emphasizing that literacy andlea' ning are thevery founda- tions of a democratic republic,teachers preparemen and women, of all races and circumstances, toexercise the respon- sibilities of citizenship. Byeducating us to deal with words, vi Foreword with symbols, with values, and with people, teachers superin- tend our intellectual and moral development and extendo r capacity to lead humane and fruitful lives. More thanany other persons in society, teachers are the curators ofour heritage. Because the function of teachers is so fundamentally impor- tant, one of the great unfinished items on the agenda of this nation is to strengthen