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Author: John Furlong Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317990129 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 175
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During the last 20 years, governments around the world have paid increasing attention to the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers. Teacher supply and teacher quality have become significant policy issues, taken up by policy-makers at the highest levels. This is because teachers are now seen by many governments as the ‘lynch-pin’ of educational, economic and social reform. This volume grew out of a recognition by the Editors of the growing significance of teacher education policy and a curiosity about international trends and differences. The book brings together nine papers from leading academics around the world: from the UK (England and Scotland), the USA, Australia, Singapore and Belgium, plus a joint paper comparing Namibia and the USA. Taken together, the papers reveal the complexities and contradictions of international trends. On the one hand, they demonstrate that there is indeed a common direction of travel along the lines encouraged by international bodies such as the OECD. At the same time however, the papers also reveal important differences among countries in terms of how they are addressing common aspirations as well as some apparent contradictions within the policies of individual nations. This book was based on the special issue of Teachers and Teaching.
Author: John Furlong Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317990129 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 175
Book Description
During the last 20 years, governments around the world have paid increasing attention to the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers. Teacher supply and teacher quality have become significant policy issues, taken up by policy-makers at the highest levels. This is because teachers are now seen by many governments as the ‘lynch-pin’ of educational, economic and social reform. This volume grew out of a recognition by the Editors of the growing significance of teacher education policy and a curiosity about international trends and differences. The book brings together nine papers from leading academics around the world: from the UK (England and Scotland), the USA, Australia, Singapore and Belgium, plus a joint paper comparing Namibia and the USA. Taken together, the papers reveal the complexities and contradictions of international trends. On the one hand, they demonstrate that there is indeed a common direction of travel along the lines encouraged by international bodies such as the OECD. At the same time however, the papers also reveal important differences among countries in terms of how they are addressing common aspirations as well as some apparent contradictions within the policies of individual nations. This book was based on the special issue of Teachers and Teaching.
Author: Marilyn Cochran-Smith Publisher: Corwin Press ISBN: 1412928125 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 305
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Gathered here are distinguished educator Marilyn Cochran-Smith's editorials from the Journal of Teacher Education. Spanning her editorship from May/June 2000 through March/April 2006, these essays track the major issues and trends during a period of intense scrutiny and contention around teacher preparation.
Author: Matthew Clarke Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781138840744 Category : Teachers Languages : en Pages : 0
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Anxieties around teacher education have never been greater, nor criticisms of its practices stronger. These anxieties are manifested in recent policy developments, which are depoliticizing and de-intellectualizing teacher education. Against this background, they illustrate how contemporary theory can provide a language for critiquing recent developments and imagining new trajectories for policy and practice in teacher education.
Author: Beverly Lindsay Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135399492 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 296
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First Published in 1995. This collection of papers was shaped by a variety of colleagues who attended the panel sessions on this topic, organized at the annual meetings of the American Educational Studies Association (1992), the Comparative and International Education Society (1993), and the American Educational Research Association (1994). The inspiration for this volume are the many policy makers, teacher educators and teacher education students around the world who have struggled and continue to struggle about and in programs to prepare teachers formally. Reading this volume will benefit the individual in that they will not only understand better the challenges they face but also be encouraged and empowered to pursue their ‘political’ goals, particularly those aimed at creating a world in which power and resources are distributed in a just and equitable manner.
Author: John Furlong Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317990110 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 240
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During the last 20 years, governments around the world have paid increasing attention to the recruitment, preparation, and retention of teachers. Teacher supply and teacher quality have become significant policy issues, taken up by policy-makers at the highest levels. This is because teachers are now seen by many governments as the ‘lynch-pin’ of educational, economic and social reform. This volume grew out of a recognition by the Editors of the growing significance of teacher education policy and a curiosity about international trends and differences. The book brings together nine papers from leading academics around the world: from the UK (England and Scotland), the USA, Australia, Singapore and Belgium, plus a joint paper comparing Namibia and the USA. Taken together, the papers reveal the complexities and contradictions of international trends. On the one hand, they demonstrate that there is indeed a common direction of travel along the lines encouraged by international bodies such as the OECD. At the same time however, the papers also reveal important differences among countries in terms of how they are addressing common aspirations as well as some apparent contradictions within the policies of individual nations. This book was based on the special issue of Teachers and Teaching.
Author: Mark B. Ginsburg Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9780750703925 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 284
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'What does politics have to do with it anyway? Why can't we just focus on the academic, professional and technical issues in teacher education - how best to prepare future teachers so that they can help children and youth learn and develop?' For Ginsburg and Lindsay, these questions reveal an incomplete understanding both of politics and teacher education. The general purpose of their book is to develop more fully our understanding so that we can ask more fruitful questions. To aid this process the volume combines in a coherent and compelling way the work of scholars with a range of disciplinary approaches, theoretical perspectives and societal experiences. The range of countries covered in this volume - in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Pacific - offers insights on the topic that might not otherwise be recognized in case studies of countries that tend to be reported in the literature.
Author: Marilyn Cochran-Smith Publisher: Corwin Press ISBN: 1506318398 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 304
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This powerful text organizes Marilyn Cochran-Smith's influential essays from the Journal of Teacher Education into one concise guide to teacher preparation at its best.
Author: Nikola Hobbel Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351252283 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 343
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Navigating the Common Good in Teacher Education Policy examines the changing relationships between the state and the common (or public) good. Using teacher education policy as the frame of analysis, the authors examine history, cultural context, and lived experiences in 12 countries and the European Union to explicate which notions of justice, social inclusion and exclusion, and citizenship emerge. By situating teacher education policy within a larger philosophical framework regarding the relationship between the state and conceptions of the "common good," this book analyzes the ideological and political desires of the state---how the state understands the common good, the future of national identity, and to what end schooling is imagined.
Author: Karen Symms Gallagher Publisher: Corwin Press ISBN: 9780761976783 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 196
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This book contains a collection of papers on the politics of teacher education reform. The book begins with "Introduction to the Politics of Teacher Preparation Reform" (Karen Symms Gallagher and Jerry D. Bailey). Part 1, "Issues From the National Arena," includes "The Politics of Teacher Education Reform: Strategic Philanthropy and Public Policy Making" (Karen Symms Gallagher and Jerry D. Bailey); "Finding the Culprit: Federal Policy and Teacher Education" (Penelope M. Earley); and "The Role of Accreditation Reform in Teacher Education" (Frank B. Murray). Part 2, "Stories From the State Arena," includes "Autonomous Boards and Standards-Based Teacher Development" (Marilyn M. Scannell and Philip L. Metcalf); and "The Georgia Story of P-16 Partnerships" (Jan S. Kettlewell, Janine A. Kaste, and Sheila A. Jones). Part 3, "A Story From the Urban Arena," includes "The Language of Standards and Teacher Education Reform" (Robert J. Yinger and Martha S. Hendricks-Lee) and "Balancing the Politics of Two Cultures: Cincinnati Initiative for Teacher Education and the Cincinnati Professional Practice Schools Partnership" (Arlene Harris Mitchell, Louis A. Castenell, Jr., Martha S. Hendricks-Lee, and Tom Mooney). Part 4, "The Micropolitical Arena," includes "Do Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences Need Schools of Education?" (Sally Frost Mason); "Developing Knowledge for Preparing Teachers: Redefining the Role of Schools of Education" (Dennis Thiessen); and "Adequacy and Allocation Within Higher Education: Funding the Work of Education Schools" (Richard D. Howard, Andy Hitz, and Larry J. Baker). Part 5, "The Final Arena: Building Capacity for Change," includes "Teaching for America's Future: National Commissions and Vested Interests in an Almost Profession" (Linda Darling-Hammond). (Papers contain references.) (SM)