Rethinking Teacher Education: Collaborative Responses to Uncertainty / Edition 1

by Anne Edwards, Peter Gilroy, David Hartley

Overview

Rethinking Teacher Education is a thorough and critical analysis of the ambivalences and uncertainties that face those in teacher education. The authors draw on their different experiences of teacher education to try to make sense of current practices and where they might lead.
The book analyzes past and present constructions of teacher education and offers insights into how a re-evaluation might address teachers' positions in relation to knowledge, learners, economic demands and democratic values. The issues addressed include:
* political and economic uncertainty and teacher education
* philosophical uncertainty and teacher education
* modernist policy solutions
* psychology: an agent of modernity in teacher education
* sociocultural and other collaborative responses to uncertainty.
The book will be of interest to all those involved in teacher education, including sociologists, psychologists and philosophers of education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415230629
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/17/2002
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Anne Edwards, Peter Gilroy, David Hartley, David Hartley

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Three themes and one overview; Chapter 2 Political and economic uncertainty and teacher education; Chapter 3 Philosophical uncertainty and teacher education; Chapter 4 Modernist policy solutions; Chapter 5 Psychology; Chapter 6 Collaborative responses to uncertainty; Chapter 7 Rethinking teacher education; Chapter 8 Delivering deliverance, David Hamilton;

Editorial Reviews

'A contribution of some importance in the discourse on teacher education and the design of professional training.' - Dave Trotman, Escalate

'This collection ... is indeed a remarkable collaboration ... This lovely little book ... provides good leads to more focussed thinking about what troubles the world of initial teacher training and its stakeholder inhabitants.' - British Journal of Educational Technology

'A contribution of some importance in the discourse on teacher education and the design of professional training.' - Dave Trotman, Escalate

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