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Theory Into Practice In A Sociology Of Education Course, David Battersby, Peter D. K. Ramsay
Theory Into Practice In A Sociology Of Education Course, David Battersby, Peter D. K. Ramsay
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
A prime criticism of teacher education is that it fails to prepare students for what lies ahead - namely, their life as a teacher. Indeed, Fuller and Brown (1975) go so far as to comment that teacher training may be orthogonal to the teacher. The major reason for this, it seems, is that college programmes and university courses do not appear to be relevant to student needs. This situation, according to many, is partly the fault of lecturers who may be out of touch with the reality of school life, and what it means to be a teacher in the …
Problems In Teaching Philosophy Of Education, M. A. B. Degenhardt
Problems In Teaching Philosophy Of Education, M. A. B. Degenhardt
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Those of us who teach philosophy of education can hardly be happy with the present state of our subject. On many counts now the energetic optimism of a decade or two ago just seems misplaced. Of course there have been considerable achievements, but much is wrong and badly wrong. The abundance, diversity and quality of literature that marks a healthy discipline is not yet in evidence, educational leaders and top decision makers take little heed of philosophical counsel, eminent educational philosophers are questioning the place of theoretical disciplines in teacher education, declining members of philosophy of education societies seem to …
Preservice Classroom Experiences : The Cooperating Teacher's Role, Chester H. Laine, Sadar A. Tanveer
Preservice Classroom Experiences : The Cooperating Teacher's Role, Chester H. Laine, Sadar A. Tanveer
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
There was a time when we used to have student teaching as the only classroom experience for an individual who wanted to be a teacher. Such experiences were generally arranged during the last quarter or semester of the person's college: education In these situations, it was a matter of completing it whether one liked it or not. Following this pattern of teacher training we turned out many teachers for whom teaching may not have been a number one priority. Currently, practical school experiences are provided starting in the freshman year. State of Ohio 1980 guidelines require that preservice teachers complete …
What Happened To The National Review Of Teacher Education?, Lawrence Ingvarson
What Happened To The National Review Of Teacher Education?, Lawrence Ingvarson
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Inquiries and reviews of teacher education have occurred with remarkable regularity in Australia over recent years. What is also remarkable about these often major and expensive enterprises is how regularly their recommendations have been deflected or ignored.
Critical Educational Policy Analysis: A Discussion Of Perspectives, John Grimley
Critical Educational Policy Analysis: A Discussion Of Perspectives, John Grimley
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Education policy is the medium through which society and educational institutions interact. Currently major policy thrusts of devolution and participation are being promoted within the educational community. It becomes essential that these poliCces be analysed and evaluated by educators. This paper supports the role of radical humanist perspective in the development of a critical model of educational policy analysis, and stresses the necessity for teacher educators to expose student teachers to critical and radical perspectives.
Mathematics And Science In Primary Teacher Education: The Design Of A Project To Encourage Review At The Institutional Level, John M. Owen, Ronald J. Welsh, Neville J. Johnson
Mathematics And Science In Primary Teacher Education: The Design Of A Project To Encourage Review At The Institutional Level, John M. Owen, Ronald J. Welsh, Neville J. Johnson
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Over the past two decades evaluation has been one of the growth industries in education. A major impetus for this development, particularly in the united States of America, has been the mandating of evaluations for major policy initiatives at federal and state levels (House, 1981). One result of such legislation has been that academics and private organisations have been engaged, often on long term assignments, to pass judgements on the worth of interventions designed to improve the quality of education made available in educational systems. Features of this approach to evaluation have been that they are large scale well funded, …
Exhibition Of The Mathematical 'Reversal Error' By Final-Year Secondary-Teacher Trainees, Martin Cooper
Exhibition Of The Mathematical 'Reversal Error' By Final-Year Secondary-Teacher Trainees, Martin Cooper
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
A mathematical error which involves the reversal of natural referents for symbols is displayed to a substantial degree by high school teachers and university staff among others. It has been shown, moreover, that the phenomenon is difficult to correct by teaching methods. In the present study, a sample of final-year pre-service Education students destined for secondary-school teaching was asked to write a short verbal statement giving the same information as a simple algebraic equation and to construct an equation corresponding to a simple statement printed in plain language. A substantial proportion of students displayed reversal in both equation-interpretation and equation-formation …
Introduction To Thematic Issue: Education Policy And Teacher Education, Bruce Haynes
Introduction To Thematic Issue: Education Policy And Teacher Education, Bruce Haynes
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
This thematic issue of the Australian Journal of Teacher Education contains five papers which relate to the theme 'Education Policy and Teacher Education'. The papers relate to two distinct aspects of the theme; education policy studies as part of teacher education courses and the influence of Australian government teacher education policy.