1st Edition

Moral and Political Values in Teacher Education over Time International Perspectives

Edited By Nick Mead Copyright 2023
192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection brings together international teacher educators to employ a ‘long view’ of an historic and values-based dialectic in teacher education. The authors reflect how employing historical consciousness to look back can offer greater continuity to teachers’ moral and political values within their training. The book draws on research from experienced teacher educators representing... Read more

1 Introduction - The role of history of education methodology in addressing the development of values in teacher education

Nick Mead

Part One - The European context: the impact of the demise of social democratic values on the development of values in teacher education

2 Beginnings: values in teacher education in an era of social democracy in England

Nick Mead

3 The Italian debate about the role of teacher within teacher education, a long dialectic between two opposing conceptions: educational intellectual or cultural employee

Gianfranco Bandini

4 The educational ideals of Spanish schoolteachers: training, professional tensions and future uncertainties

Eugenio Otero-Urtaza

Part Two - The American context: teacher educators who counter the neo-liberal accountability era by nurturing the values of long-term teacher researchers

5 The positive power of negative capability: long-term teacher researchers in the United States

Elizabeth Currin

Part Three – The South African post-conflict context: reproductive or transformative values in teacher education?

6 Teacher education, values and transformation: an analysis of the Longue Durée of the process of learning to teach in South Africa

Zahraa McDonald

Part Four – The Japanese context: the implications of the depoliticization of education for teacher development in a neo-liberal era

7 Shifting values in Japanese teacher development

Mitsuharu Mizuyama

Conclusion

8 Conclusion - reconnecting the dialectic: implications of the ‘long view’ of values in teacher education for the collaborative work of international teacher educators

Nick Mead

Biography

Nick Mead was formerly head of the Department of Leadership and Professional Education and is now Associate Lecturer in Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK.