Teaching Educational Foundations: Multiple Explorations of Pedagogy in Teacher Education

This article serves as an overview to a series of articles on the teaching of educational foundations in programs preparing teachers for elementary and secondary schools. The series consists of six articles, four of them written by collegiate faculty members who at one time apprenticed with this writer, plus this article and a brief concluding piece. This first article describes the context of the apprenticeship, the central conceptions guiding the pedagogy of the educational foundations course shared by all five authors, and introduces the four other authors.