The struggle for teacher education : international perspectives on governance and reforms / edited by Tom Are Trippestad, Anja Swennen and Tobias Werler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trippestad, Tom Are, editor.

Swennen, Anja, editor.

Werler, Tobias, editor.

Series:

Reinventing teacher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Training of.

Teachers.

Teachers--Training of--Curricula.

Educational change.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Education.

Physical Description:

xiii, 224 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

Reform of teacher education is fashionable 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. This book brings together conceptual, comparative and empirical studies from Australia, England, Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and South America to explore the ways in which professional education has been positioned in a reactive mode. The contributors discuss how teacher education is a contested area in higher education and look at how current reform efforts may limit the potential and work of teacher education, highlighting why this point needs more attention. Moreover, the volume reveals how teacher education's authorship on teacher professionalism may be weakened or strengthened by current reform drives and offers alternative models on how to rethink reforming teacher education.

Contents:

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Series editors/ foreword. The struggle for teacher education / Tom Are Trippestad, Anja Swennen and Tobias Werler

The visionary position: critical factors of utopian social engineering in education reforms / Tom Are Trippestad

Challenging policy, rethinking practice: struggling for the soul of teach education / Bill Green, Jo-Anne Reid and Marie Brennan

Reforming teacher education in ENgland: locating the "policy" problem / Meg Maguire and Rosalyn George

Comparing secondary initial teacher education in England and Finland: learning together / Paul Richard DIckinson and Jaana Ilona Silvennoinen

Teacher education in South Africa: teacher educators working for social justice / Maureen Robinson

Dutch teacher educators' struggles over monopoly and autonomy (1990-2010) / Anja Swennen and Monique Volman

Learning sciences: reconfiguring authority in teacher education / Tobias Werler

Teacher education in South America: a problem or a solution? / Beatrice Ávalos-Bevan

Teacher education in England: professional preparation in times of change / Jacek Brant and Katharine Vincent

Reform as a state of exception / Tom Are Trippestad, Anja Swennen and Tobias Werler. References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-217) and index (pages [218]-224)

ISBN:

9781474285537

1474285538

OCLC:

987857327