Policy and Politics in Teacher Education
International Perspectives
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Policy and Politics in Teacher Education
International Perspectives
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The new teacher education in the United States: directions forward
- 3 Teacher professionalism in Flemish policy on teacher education: a critical analysis of the decree on teacher education (2006) in Flanders, Belgium
- 4 Sites of contestation over teacher education in Australia
- 5 Partnership, Policy and Politics: initial teacher education in England under new Labour
- 6 Is small beautiful? policy making in teacher education in Scotland
- 7 Contradictions and tensions in the place of teachers in educational reform: reflections on teacher preparation in the USA and Namibia
- 8 Instrumentalism and teacher education in the United States: an analysis of two national reports
- 9 101 damnations: the persistence of criticism and the absence of evidence about teacher education in Australia
- 10 Knowledge management, sustainable innovation and pre-service teacher education in Singapore
- 11 More and better? The political and policy dilemmas of teacher professional development in Nigeria
- 12 Reconstructing dominant paradigms of teacher education: possibilities for pedagogical transformation in Fiji
- 13 European perspectives of teacher education and training
- Index