The struggle for teacher education : international perspectives on governance and reforms /
"Reform of teacher education is en vogue worldwide today due to the widespread belief that teacher education has the power to change traditional modes of schooling, educating new teachers who will be capable of improving the knowledge standard of children and boost the economic power of nations...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017.
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| Series: | Reinventing teacher education.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Series Editors' Foreword
- The Struggle for Teacher Education
- Introduction
- Waves of struggle within teacher education
- The first and second wave of teacher education reform
- The third wave: Teacher education as a problem
- Struggling with teacher education reforms
- the chapters
- Struggle with a primacy of policy
- Struggle with practice policies
- Struggle of teacher educators in higher education
- Struggle with learning outcomes
- The struggle for the 'good teacher'
- Chapter 1 The Visionary Position: Critical Factors of Utopian Social Engineering in Education Reforms
- Management of objectives as a master idea of reform
- Kairos
- a rhetorical perspective
- U
- topos
- the making of a visionary position
- Political holism
- Political-scientific governing regimes
- Science expansion and disciplinary specialization in teacher education
- Khronos
- timing, rhythm and order of reform
- Problems as solutions
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Challenging Policy, Rethinking Practice: Struggling for the Soul of Teacher Education
- Introduction
- The struggle for teacher education
- Global teacher education reform: An Australian perspective
- The primacy of practice
- Conclusion: Ready to teach, or managing the soul?
- Notes
- Chapter 3 Reforming Teacher Education in England: Locating the 'Policy' Problem
- Introduction
- The 'taken for grantedness' of reforming teacher education
- market forces
- The 'taken for grantedness' of reforming teacher education: Alternative providers and unexpected outcomes
- And the consumer of new forms of teacher education?
- Extrinsic motivators for choice
- Intrinsic rationale for pathway choice
- Discussion
- 'Locating' the policy problem?
- Chapter 4 Comparing Secondary Initial Teacher Education in England and Finland: Learning Together
- Introduction
- Comparison between England and Finland and models of Initial Teacher Education
- Material and method
- Exit surveys
- Helsinki University, Finland exit survey
- Semi-structured interviews
- Discussion
- Chapter 5 Teacher Education in South Africa: Teacher Educators Working for Social Justice
- Introduction: Towards improving the quality of education
- Policy reform in teacher education
- Teacher education qualifications framework
- Professional and academic expectations
- Socioinstitutional factors
- Conceptual considerations
- Strategic interventions
- Conclusion
- Note
- Chapter 6 Dutch Teacher Educators' Struggles over Monopoly and Autonomy (1990-2010)
- Introduction
- Monopoly and autonomy of teacher educators, and the struggle for teacher education
- Context: Teacher education in the Netherlands
- Method
- Three struggles about the profession of teacher educators (1990-2010)
- Final remarks
- Chapter 7 Learning Sciences: Reconfiguring Authority in Teacher Education
- Introduction: Norwegian teacher education and pedagogikk
- Productivity and teacher education
- Pedagogical authority and teacher education
- Boundary work
- analysing conceptual changes
- Learning sciences: replacing pedagogy
- Learning sciences: dissolution of national knowledge traditions
- Pedagogy in teacher education
- lost in translation
- Notes
- Chapter 8 Teacher Education in South America: A Problem or a Solution?1
- Introduction
- National educational contexts and school achievement
- Teachers and their preparation: Evidence from the TERCE study (OREALC/UNESCO, 2015b)
- Critical situations recognized as problem areas in the selected countries
- Concluding thoughts
- Notes.
- Chapter 9 Teacher Education in England: Professional Preparation in Times of Change
- Introduction
- The good teacher and good teaching
- Teaching as a professional activity
- Initial Teacher Education and the role of university
- Principles of a successful Initial Teacher Education Programme
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 10 Reform as a State of Exception
- References
- Index.
