This book provides a call to action for post-compulsory teacher education professionals, both in the UK and internationally, to unite around key principles and practices. The professional, educational and funding turbulence experienced by post-compulsory teacher education since 2008 has been significant. Austerity financing and increasing government intervention have provided many new and difficult challenges. At the same time evidence is building that the quality of teaching is the most important contributor to the quality of learning and achievement, and teacher education is demonstrably one of the most important influences on that teaching quality.
The mainly workplace-based partnership model of teacher education used in the post-compulsory education (PCE) sector resonates well with a number of key current developments in the UK and broader field of teacher education. PCE teacher educators are particularly well placed to tell their story and share their vision of a better future for teachers through their own experiences, values and principles. Written by a range of post-compulsory teacher educators, the text therefore is an informed and passionate argument for:
- improving the professional recognition of teacher education and teacher educators;
- demonstrating how teacher education already connects teaching professionals into an engaged and collaborative professional community;
- providing strategies to enact this vision through connected, democratic professionalism.
This title is part of the successful Critical Guides for Teacher Educators series edited by Ian Menter.
Tabella dei contenuti
1) Becoming visible: introducing the ‘invisible educators’
2) Teacher Educators: the ‘even more’ quality
3) The filling in the educational sandwich: the context of Post Compulsory Education
4) The history and development of Post Compulsory Teacher Education
5) Enacting teacher education values
6) Invisibility or connecting professionals?
7) Going global
8) Growing connections for the future of a connected profession
Circa l’autore
Ian Menter is former President of BERA, 2013-2015. At Oxford University Department of Education he was Director of Professional Programmes and led the development of the Oxford Education Deanery. Prior to that he was Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Glasgow and held posts at the University of the West of Scotland, London Metropolitan University, University of the West of England and the University of Gloucestershire. Ian was President of the Scottish Educational Research Association from 2005–07 and chaired the Research and Development Committee of the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) from 2008-11. He is a Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University and Ulster University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. Since 2018 he has been a Senior Research Associate at Kazan Federal University, Russia.
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