| The Struggle for Teacher Education: International Perspectives on Governance and Reforms Contributor(s): Trippestad, Tom Are (Editor), Swennen, Anja (Editor), Werler, Tobias (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474285538 ISBN-13: 9781474285537 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Research |
| Dewey: 370.711 |
| LCCN: 2016043618 |
| Series: Reinventing Teacher Education |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Reform of teacher education is en vogue worldwide today due to the widespread belief that teacher education has the power to change traditional modes of schooling, educating new teachers who will be capable of improving the knowledge standard of children and boost the economic power of nations. The Struggle for Teacher Education brings together conceptual, comparative and empirical studies from Australia, England, Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and South America to explore the ways in which professional education has been positioned in a reactive mode. The contributors discuss how teacher education is a contested division in higher education and look at how current reform efforts may limit the potential and work of teacher education, highlighting why this point needs more attention. Moreover, the collection reveals how teacher education's authorship on teacher professionalism may be weakened or strengthened by current reform drives and offers alternative models on how to rethink reforming teacher education. |
Contributor Bio(s): Trippestad, Tom Are: - Tom Are Trippestad is Professor of Education at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Norway.Brennan, Marie: - MARIE BRENNAN is an anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for material. She is the author of several acclaimed fantasy novels including A Natural History of Dragons; The Onyx Court Series: Midnight Never Come, In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall, and With Fate Conspire; Warrior; and Witch. Her short stories have appeared in more than a dozen print and online publications.Ellis, VIV: - Viv Ellis is Professor and Head of the Department of Education at Brunel University, London, UK, and Professor II at Bergen University College in Norway. |
