Teacher Education in the English-Speaking World
Title | Teacher Education in the English-Speaking World PDF eBook |
Author | Tom O'Donoghue |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2008-05-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1607526506 |
This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major Englishspeaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand). The focus on individual regions is reflective of a comparative approach with a long tradition going back to the turn of the twentieth century. This approach is still valid at the present time as it provides one of the best ways of initially structuring our understanding of teacher education at the macro level in order to facilitate communication of the situation crossnationally and prepare the way for higher levels of analyses. To this end, the book has twelve chapters: An introductory chapter details the focus of the book. This is followed by a chapter on each of the ten regions. Each of these chapters, written by an expert in the field: focuses on general trends in teacher education rather than on any specific aspect of it; focuses primarily on pre-service teacher education at the primary and post-primary levels, although some reference is also made to continuing professional development; strikes a balance between past, present and future trends; deals broadly with access to, the processes involved in, and the structure of, teacher education; has a unique structure rather than one based upon a formulaic approach. In the final chapter major themes are distilled from the case studies. It also outlines how the book furthers understanding of teacher education internationally, considers other groupings of regions ripe for consideration along similar lines, and indicates initiatives arising out of the case studies worthy of consideration for the improvement of teacher education cross-nationally.
Teacher Education in the English-Speaking World: Past
Title | Teacher Education in the English-Speaking World: Past PDF eBook |
Author | T. A. O'Donoghue |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2008 |
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Teacher Education in the English-speaking World
Title | Teacher Education in the English-speaking World PDF eBook |
Author | Tom A. O'Donoghue |
Publisher | Information Age Pub Incorporated |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781593119003 |
This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major English-speaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand). The focus on individual regions is reflective of a comparative approach with a long tradition going back to the turn of the twentieth century. Each of the chapters focuses on general trends in teacher education rather than on any specific aspect of it; focuses primarily on pre-service teacher education at the primary and post-primary levels, although some reference is also made to continuing professional development; strikes a balance between past, present and future trends; deals broadly with access to, the processes involved in, and the structure of, teacher education; has a unique structure rather than one based upon a formulaic approach. In the final chapter major themes are distilled from the case studies. It also outlines how the book furthers understanding of teacher education internationally, considers other groupings of regions ripe for consideration along similar lines, and indicates initiatives arising out of the case studies worthy of consideration for the improvement of teacher education cross-nationally. {Back cover, ed].
Teaching English to the World
Title | Teaching English to the World PDF eBook |
Author | George Braine |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2014-04-08 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135603499 |
This collection of accounts by non-native speaker English teachers presents localized perspectives on the history & curricula of English language teaching and personal narratives of authors from around the world.
Historical Perspectives on Teacher Preparation in Aotearoa New Zealand
Title | Historical Perspectives on Teacher Preparation in Aotearoa New Zealand PDF eBook |
Author | Tanya Fitzgerald |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2019-07-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1787546411 |
This book documents and critiques the historical origins and historiography of schooling and teacher preparation in New Zealand. The country has a unique educational history, as the overview of the history and development of schools for the nation's children, both Pakeha (European) and Maori, will highlight.
Teacher Preparation in South Africa
Title | Teacher Preparation in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Chisholm |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2019-10-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1787436942 |
The book will focus on the emergence of a racially-divided system of teacher preparation and its dismantling post-apartheid. It will explore the policies and politics of discrepant pathways to teacher preparation within the context of international and comparative trends.
A Learning Profession?
Title | A Learning Profession? PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Robinson |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2014-07-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9462095728 |
This ground-breaking book uncovers a hidden history of the professional develop¬ment of serving teachers. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, Wendy Robinson reveals an op¬timistic and liberal age of high class conferences in the 1920s and 1930s, in Lon¬don hotels and Oxford colleges, free from government control, where teachers from across the country and abroad, gathered for professional, intellectual and cultural ‘refreshment’. The status attached to these occasions was signified by the celebrities who graced them, including royalty, public intellectuals, educational practitioners and politicians. Professor Robinson then shows how post-war training became more instrumental, taken over by the Ministry of Education with its centrally-prescribed advanced courses, and, from 1970, by Local Education Authorities’ invention of ap¬parently democratic Teachers’ Centres. This analysis is complemented by face-to-face interviews with teachers and other practitioners once active in professional development. Fascinating, detailed inter¬views brilliantly capture teachers’ lived experience of professional development and its influence on their teaching, career development and professional identity. Fresh and original, lucidly written by one of the leading historians of education in Britain, A Learning Profession? is essential and engaging reading for those inter¬ested in the development of a teaching profession.