ABSTRACT
Teaching cases are not new to teacher education. “As early as 1920, case materials were . . . used in teacher education programs in New Jersey and Massachusetts” (Merseth, 1991, p. x). In response to the school reform movement in the early 1980s, interest in case methods expanded (Merseth, 1991), and by the early 1990s case books that focused on generic aspects of teaching and texts that described case methods became available (Doyle, 1990; Schon, 1991; J. Shulman, 1992; Welty, Silverman, & Lyon, 1991).
