1st Edition

Teacher Education Partnerships Policy and Practice

78 Pages
by Routledge

78 Pages
by Routledge

This book supports all those involved in initial teacher education (ITE) and with an interest in partnership working. Such partnerships are at the heart of ITE practices, both in the UK and internationally, but more recently models of partnership have become ever more complex as a result of government reforms, the rapid diversification of routes into teaching and significant increase in the... Read more

1. Introduction: what do we know about the nature of ITE partnerships?

2. Issues and problems with partnerships

3. How is current policy being implemented? A case study.

4. The practice of partnership: strengths, tensions and opportunities.

5. Towards a principled approach to ITE partnership working.

 Index

Biography

Trevor Mutton is the current PGCE course director at the University of Oxford, where he also contributes to the Master's programme in Learning and Teaching. He taught Modern Foreign Languages before joining the university and has since been involved in a range of research into language teaching and into the nature of beginning teachers' learning (including the Developing Expertise of Beginning Teachers (DEBT) project).