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The role of social foundations in teacher education has been a hotly debated issue since the founding of the first social foundations course, 200F at Teachers College and the founding of the field there in the 1930s and has remained contested ground in colleges of education. Over the past decades many social foundations scholars have argued the value of social foundations of education courses and perspectives in educator preparation programs. 1 The original standards of the field, The Standards for Academic and Professional Instruction in Foundations of Education, Educational Studies, and Educational Policy Studies, are essentially an argument for the role of social foundationsin the preparation of educators. First written in 1977-78, republished in 1986, revised in 1996, and again in 2012, they establish boundaries for the field of social foundations through a definition the field, a discussion of the role of foundations in educator preparation, as well as a description of the content of graduate programs in foundations and how faculty in social foundations should be prepared. They go so far as to state what is not considered coursework in social foundations, in an attempt to defend the field against courses that look like foundations but are not,“Studies in Social Foundations of Education shall not be equated with “Introduction to Education” coursework unless such study clearly addresses the three perspectives indicated in this  \n1. Kathleen Bennett deMarrais, Sally Oran, & Jamie Lewis,“Social Foundations as a Foundation for Literacy Instruction: An Effort in Collaboration,” in Handbook of Instructional Practices for Literacy Teacher-Educators: Examples and Reflections from the Teaching Lives of Literacy Scholars , ed. Joyce E. Many (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001): 21-30. Kathleen Bennett deMarrais, Jamie Lewis, & Sally Oran, “Educating Teachers for an Urban/Multicultural Context: Growing through Diversity,” in Ground Level Reform in Teacher Education: Changing Schools of Education, ed. Marvin Wideen & Paulette Lemma (Calgary, Canada: Temeron Books, 1999): 49-76. Dan Butin, Teaching Social Foundations of Education: Context, Theories, and Issues (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2005) . Roselle Chartrock, Educational Foundations: An Anthology (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000) . Alan R. Sadovnik, Peter Cookson Jr., & Susan Semel, Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education , 2nd edition (Neednam Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2001) . Robert Crocker & David Dibbon, Teacher Education in Canada (Kelowna, BC: Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education, 2008) . Kathleen deMarrais,“Reflections on a Social Foundations Approach to Teacher Education,” in Teaching Social Foundations of Education: Contexts, Theories, and Issues , ed. Dan Butin (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005): 167-190. James Heibert & Ann K. Morris,“Teaching, Rather Than Teaches, as a Path Toward Improving,” Journal of Teacher Education, 63, no. 2 (2012): 92-102. Erwin V. Johanningmeier,“Through the Disarray of Social Foundations: Some Notes Toward a New Social Foundations,” Educational Foundations, 6, no. 1 (1991): 5-39. Donald Kerr, David Mandzuk & Helen Raptis,“The Role of the Social Foundations of Education in Programs of Teacher Preparation in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Education, 34, no. 4 (2011): 118-134. Mary Rose McCarthy,“The Rise and Fall of ED200F,” Educational Studies 39, no.  \n2 (2003): 134-145. 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