The Two Sides of a Gold Coin:On the Diversified Value Orientation and Development Trends of Teacher Education in the USA
Teacher education in the United States revolves around core values such as children and teachers,quality and efficiency,teachers and society,academia and teacher education,and has formed multiple distinct sets of teacher education value orientations,including child development and teaching research,regulation and deregulation,humanistic and social justice,profession and common sense.This binary value orientation of either this or that does not recognize that children and teachers,quality and efficiency,teachers and society,academic and pedagogical nature are essentially two sides of the same coin for the professional development of teacher edu-cation.In the future,teacher education should balance the reasonable concerns of different value orientations,adhere to the principle of value integration,and actively promote the professional value orientation of teacher ed-ucation to become the mainstream values of teacher education.