Do Universities have a Role in the Education and Training of Teachers?

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Do Universities have a Role in the Education and Training of Teachers?

Edition:

1st Edition

Author:

Bob Moon

Published:

June 2016

Format:

ISBN:

9781107571907

A collaborative series with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education highlighting leading-edge research across Teacher Education, International Education Reform and Language Education.

£37.75

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Overview

A unique global analysis of the political and social pressures on the education of teachers within the university. The education of teachers has become a major concern in the development and improvement of education systems across the world. In most countries the responsibility for preparing teachers is held by the universities, which has helped raise the status of teaching. However teacher education has come under increasing criticism as overly theoretical and ineffective in addressing the practical needs of teachers within the classroom. Do Universities have a Role in the Education and Training of Teachers? addresses these concerns directly through a unique series of case studies by leading academics. The consistency of public concern across countries as disparate as China, India, the USA and UK is explored, as are contemporary attempts to introduce reforms that address these concerns. The book suggests a number of key questions for universities to address if they are continue to play an important role in the pre-service and professional education of teachers.

Features

Presents case studies by distinguished academics from all parts of the world.
Demonstrates the way in which critiques of teacher education have become common across countries as diverse as China, India, the USA and UK and a range of other countries.
Explores contemporary attempts to address public concern through teacher education reforms.
Suggests a series of key questions that need to be answered if the role of universities in teacher education is to grow and prosper.

Series Editors' Preface
Chapter 1 - The Issues and Tensions Around Teacher Education and Training in the University
Chapter 2 - Academic and Practical: Research-based Teacher Education in Finland
Chapter 3 - Norwegian Teacher Education: Development, Steering and Current Trends
Chapter 4 - Teachers for the Twenty-first Century: A Transnational Analysis of the Role of the University in Teacher Education in the United Kingdom
Chapter 5 - The Role and Place of Training Organisations, the State Employer and University in Initial Teacher Training in France (1991-2015)
Chapter 6 - Universities and the Preparation of Teachers in the Mediterranean: Cautionary Tales from the Global South
Chapter 7 - The Changing Role of Universities in US Teacher Education
Chapter 8 - Cinderella Faculties: The Changing and Unchanging Nature of Teacher Education in Australian Universities
Chapter 9 - Teacher Education in Universities: A Case from India
Chapter 10 - The Development of Key Normal Universities in China: Challenges and Transformations
Chapter 11 - Teacher Education in Chile: Trends in Social and Political Pressures for Change and Evolution of its Organisational and Knowledge Bases
Chapter 12 - The Missions and Meanders of Teacher Education in South Africa
Chapter 13 - Teacher Education in Uganda: Policy and Practice
Chapter 14 - Building an Agenda for the Reform of Teacher Education and Training within the University
Index
Acknowledgements