In order to become first-rate professional schools, scholarship must be the first order of business in teacher preparation. Education, suggests Wisniewski, is a fer tile field for scholarly inquiry. Further more, the complexity of teaching and teacher education makes on-going study imperative. That study must center not only on classroom phenomena, but on the culture and ethos of the institutions responsible for training prospective teachers.
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