1st Edition

Policy and Politics in Teacher Education International perspectives

Edited By John Furlong, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Marie Brennan Copyright 2009
182 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

181 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction  John Furlong, Marilyn Cochran-Smith and Marie Brennan  2. The new teacher education in the United States: directions forward  Marilyn Cochran-Smith  3. Teacher professionalism in Flemish policy on teacher education: a critical analysis of the decree on teacher education (2006) in Flanders (Belgium)  Maarten Simons and Geert Kelchtermans  4. Sites of contestation over teacher education in Australia  Marie Brennan and Sue Willis  5. Partnership, Policy and Politics: initial teacher education in England under new Labour  John FurlongOlwen McNamaraAnne CampbellJohn Howson and Sarah Lewis  6. Is small beautiful? policy making in teacher education in Scotland  Ian Menter and Moira Hulme  7. Contradictions and tensions in the place of teachers in educational reform: reflections on teacher preparation in the USA and Namibia  Ken Zeichner and Bekisizwe Ndimande  8. Instrumentalism and teacher education in the United States: an analysis of two national reports  Penelope M. Earley  9. 101 damnations: the persistence of criticism and the absence of evidence about teacher education in Australia  William Louden  10. Knowledge management, sustainable innovation and pre-service teacher education in Singapore  David Hogan and S. Gopinathan  11. More or better? The political and policy dilemmas of teacher professional development in Nigeria  David Johnson  12. Reconstructing Dominant Paradigms of Teacher Education: Possibilities for pedagogical transformation in Fiji  Katarina Tuinamuana  13. European Perspectives of Teacher Education and Training  John Sayer

Biography

John Furlong is Director at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.

Marilyn Cochran-Smith is John E. Cawthorne Chair in Teacher Education and Director of Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College, USA.

Marie Brennan is based at the School of Education, University of South Australia, Australia.