Policy Practice And Politics In Teacher Education

Author : John Furlong,Marilyn Cochran-Smith,Marie Brennan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317990116

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Policy and Politics in Teacher Education by John Furlong,Marilyn Cochran-Smith,Marie Brennan Pdf

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
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412928120

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Policy, Practice, and Politics in Teacher Education by Marilyn Cochran-Smith Pdf

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 : Ian Hardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415899239

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The Politics of Teacher Professional Development by Ian Hardy Pdf

This text provides insights into teachers' continuing development and learning in contemporary western contexts. This volume is premised on the understanding that by learning more about the conditions under which teachers work and learn, it is possible to understand the learning opportunities teachers experience.

Author : Matthew Clarke,Anne Phelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317555681

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Teacher Education and the Political by Matthew Clarke,Anne Phelan Pdf

Teacher Education and the Political is a striking book which addresses the nature and purpose of teacher education in a global context characterised by economic and political anxieties around declining productivity and social inclusion. These anxieties are manifested in recent policy developments such as the promotion of professional standards, the deregulation and marketisation of teacher education and the imposition of performance-related regimes that tie teachers’ pay to outcomes in high-stakes testing. The book assesses the implications of such policies for the work of teachers as well as for teacher educators and those undertaking initial teacher training. It is argued that these policy moves can be read as a depoliticising and de-intellectualising of teacher education. In this context, they illustrate how contemporary theory can provide a language for critiquing recent developments and imagining new trajectories for policy and practice in teacher education. Drawing on the work of theorists from Derrida and Mouffe to Agamben and Lacan, this book argues for the need to maintain a space for intellectual autonomy as a critical dimension of the ethico-political work of teachers. Together these ideas and analyses provide examples of the power of negative thinking, illustrating its capacity to unsettle comfortable truths and foreground the political nature of teacher education. Current teachers, teacher educators and school leaders will be particularly interested readers, alongside those concerned with policy in the wider educational landscape.

Author : Christopher Day
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000343267

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Policy, Teacher Education and the Quality of Teachers and Teaching by Christopher Day Pdf

This edited collection brings together papers written by a number of experienced international academics who share a passion for promoting research-informed, high-quality pre-service and in-service teacher education that makes a positive difference to the lives of teachers and their students. Taken together, the contributions to this book represent a call to arms for all who lead education policy at local, regional, and national levels, teacher educators, and schools themselves, to engage in sustained and productive collaboration. Topics include: the centrality of empathy to the classroom, ‘practical theorising’ that is a central part of all good teachers’ armoury; the possibilities for collaborative professionalism which enables them to extend and enrich their thinking, commitment, and capacity for resilience; the pedagogical reasoning, habits of mind, critical reflection, knowledge, and skills that lead to the best classroom practices. Only when the voices of stakeholders at all these levels are brought together, heard, and enacted, are students in all schools in all contexts and in all jurisdictions likely to receive the quality of education to which all are entitled. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Teachers and Teaching.

Author : Viv Ellis,Lauren Gatti,Warwick Mansell
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781447359098

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The New Political Economy of Teacher Education by Viv Ellis,Lauren Gatti,Warwick Mansell Pdf

Viv Ellis, Lauren Gatti and Warwick Mansell present a unique and international analysis of teacher education policy. Adopting a political economy perspective, this distinctive text provides a comparative analysis of three contrasting welfare state models – the US, England and Norway – following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Arguing that a new political economy of teacher education began to emerge in the decade following the GFC, the authors explore key concepts in education privatisation and examine the increasingly important role of shadow state enterprises in some jurisdictions. This topical text demonstrates the potential of a political economy approach when analysing education policies regarding pre-service teacher education and continuing professional development.

Author : Diane Mayer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811637776

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Teacher Education Policy and Research by Diane Mayer Pdf

In this book, leading teacher education researchers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Finland, Hong Kong SAR, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Ireland, Portugal, Scotland, the USA and Wales examine teacher education policy and research in each of their contexts. The book highlights the connections and disconnections between teacher education policy and research. It examines contemporary challenges and issues in teacher education including how high-quality teacher education is framed, how teaching quality is framed, and the role of teacher education research. It also considers future policy and research possibilities and opportunities for teacher education research, equity and preparing teachers for work within contexts of super-diversity, and early career teaching.

Author : Pam Denicolo,Michael Kompf
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415362245

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Connecting Policy and Practice by Pam Denicolo,Michael Kompf Pdf

This volume delivers a selection of papers presented at an international teaching conference on issues of theory and practice. These key topics will be of interest to novice and veteran teachers, policy makers and all education professionals.

Author : Jean Murray,Anja Swennen,Clare Kosnik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030016128

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International Research, Policy and Practice in Teacher Education by Jean Murray,Anja Swennen,Clare Kosnik Pdf

This unique book is an important source of information for all of those who educate future teachers and those who participate in teacher education as students, researchers, educators and policymakers. The volume also contributes to the international development of higher quality and research-led teacher education provision by providing clear evidence of policy impact. It draws on original research studies, conducted across eight countries in North America, Europe and Australia to analyse the impact of teacher education policy initiatives on ‘insiders’ in the fields, including education students, teacher educators and mentors in schools. In achieving this, the various chapters in the book analyse the commonalities and differentiations in the many policy reforms in teacher education currently being implemented by national governments. The book reveals some of the hidden consequences of these recent ‘reform’ efforts. It is also of use for leaders and policy makers in teacher education, providing them with insider perspectives from both theory and practice and making it possible for them to develop research-informed decisions that take into account the voices of insiders. Few texts have considered international policy trends alongside the impact they have had on significant stakeholder groups ‘inside’ teacher education. In redressing this omission, the book contributes to a better understanding of and improved practice of work in teacher education, both pre- and in-service.

Author : Ian Hardy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136274534

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The Politics of Teacher Professional Development by Ian Hardy Pdf

The Politics of Teacher Professional Development: Policy, Research and Practice provides innovative insights into teachers’ continuing development and learning in contemporary western contexts. Rather than providing a list of "how-tos" and "must dos," this volume is premised on the understanding that by learning more about the current conditions under which teachers and other educators work and learn, it is possible to understand, and consequently improve, the learning opportunities teachers experience. Teacher professional development is not simply construed as an isolated series of events, such as day-long workshops marking the beginning of each school year or term, or individualistic "one-off" activities focused on new teaching approaches, curricula or assessment strategies. Rather, through application of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s understanding of social practices as contested, teacher professional development is revealed as a complex social practice which exists as policy, as a research product and process, and as an important part of teachers’ work. The book reveals how PD as policy, research and teachers’ work are inherently contested. An extended series of case studies of teacher professional development practices from Canada, England and Australia are employed to show how these tensions play out in complex ways in policy and practice.

Author : Jillian Fox,Colette Alexander,Tania Aspland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811541247

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Teacher Education in Globalised Times by Jillian Fox,Colette Alexander,Tania Aspland Pdf

This book provides commentary on the influence of multi-layered political contexts that surround the work of teacher educators worldwide. It addresses the drawbacks of the massification, standards-based movements and marketisation of universal business that threaten authenticity, innovation and entrepreneurship within teacher education on a global scale. The chapters celebrate the richly described local stories that explore the often tacit political activity that underpins teacher educators’ work. The book highlights the commitment of both teachers and teacher educators to social justice, and human rights and critical consciousness as central to the process of teacher development. Teacher formation, teacher education policies and curriculum development in an era of globalisation, super-diversity and the positioning of Indigenous populations, and national regulation and localisation are topics that are explored in this book.

Author : Silvia Edling,Geraldine Mooney Simmie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429952159

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Democracy and Teacher Education by Silvia Edling,Geraldine Mooney Simmie Pdf

This book connects the dilemmas educators experience in daily practice with key theories, research and policy about democracy, ethics and equity in education. Illustrated through vignettes from practising teachers, as well as suggested questions and supplementary readings for each chapter, the authors recognise and explore the complex nature of the insoluble problems that face practising teachers in their everyday lives and how they can be understood in order to address them in a more elaborate manner. Divided into eight concise chapters, this book provides a much-needed comprehensive exploration of issues within the education discourse, as seen from a global perspective, such as: Teachers’ understanding of their profession Political demands and the complexities of practice Schools’ democratic values Performance and accountability Minority needs and majority rule Countering radicalisation, terrorism and misinformation. Democracy and Teacher Education is a fantastic resource for students in teacher education programmes, as well as teacher educators, who are looking to develop a critical understanding of the choices made within the education field in a more thoughtful and sensitive manner.

Author : Matthew Clarke,Anne M. Phelan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Teachers
ISBN : 1138840734

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Teacher Education and the Political by Matthew Clarke,Anne M. Phelan Pdf

Teacher Education and the Political is a striking book which addresses the nature and purpose of teacher education in a global context characterised by economic and political anxieties around declining productivity and social inclusion. These anxieties are manifested in recent policy developments such as the promotion of professional standards, the deregulation and marketisation of teacher education and the imposition of performance-related regimes that tie teachers' pay to outcomes in high-stakes testing. The book assesses the implications of such policies for the work of teachers as well as for teacher educators and those undertaking initial teacher training. It is argued that these policy moves can be read as a depoliticising and de-intellectualising of teacher education. In this context, they illustrate how contemporary theory can provide a language for critiquing recent developments and imagining new trajectories for policy and practice in teacher education. Drawing on the work of theorists from Derrida and Mouffe to Agamben and Lacan, this book argues for the need to maintain a space for intellectual autonomy as a critical dimension of the ethico-political work of teachers. Together these ideas and analyses provide examples of the power of negative thinking, illustrating its capacity to unsettle comfortable truths and foreground the political nature of teacher education. Current teachers, teacher educators and school leaders will be particularly interested readers, alongside those concerned with policy in the wider educational landscape.

Author : Vasileios Symeonidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000260120

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Europeanisation in Teacher Education by Vasileios Symeonidis Pdf

This book explores the phenomenon and process of Europeanisation in the field of teacher education. Drawing on comparative case studies in Austria, Greece and Hungary, it examines empirical data and analyses key themes around the continuum of teacher education, the development of teacher competence frameworks, and the support to teacher educators. The book is the first of its kind to systematically research the landscape of European teacher education, exploring the interactions between national and European influences in the trajectory of teacher education policy and practice. Chapters offer an original and in-depth understanding of European influences that draw on evidence from policy documents and interviews with relevant stakeholders. It argues that teacher education systems are being Europeanised, although at different speeds and directions for each country. Factors such as the socio-political and economic contexts, historical traits and policy actors’ preferences at both national and institutional levels determine the translation process. This book will be of great interest for academics, educational researchers, practitioners and policymakers in Europe and beyond, informing wider discussions about the emerging European context in teacher education, education policy and what it means to be a European teacher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Teachers
ISBN : UOM:39015041798425

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Issues in Teacher Education by Anonim Pdf