1st Edition

Values and Professional Knowledge in Teacher Education

By Nick Mead Copyright 2019
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

Values and Professional Knowledge in Teacher Education provides distinctive insights into potential strengths to develop trainee teachers’ values within school-based training. Looking at the personal moral and political values of trainees as fundamental to strategic and critical professional knowledge, the book considers a key question about training contexts: to what extent is teacher education... Read more


  1. The experience of a teacher educator in England: values-based professional knowledge at stake


  2. International perspectives on values and professional knowledge in teacher education


  3. Applied theoretical principles for developing the relationship between trainee teachers’ values and their professional knowledge


  4. The impact of university and school-based training contexts on the development of values-based professional knowledge


  5. The challenge of a values-based professional knowledge to current teacher education practice

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.