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Contents Page, And, Introduction By Rod Chadbourne, Guest Editor, Rod Chadbourne
Contents Page, And, Introduction By Rod Chadbourne, Guest Editor, Rod Chadbourne
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
In 1992, the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) released a policy document titled: "Teacher Education: A discussion paper." Among other thought provoking points, it presented Australian teacher educators as relatively old and lacking current teaching experience in schools. According to the discussion paper, 81 % of teacher educators are over 38 years old, 37% are over 48, only 20% taught in schools during the 1980's, and more than 50% were school teachers before 1973 (pp 11- 12). Further, consistent with their "obsolescent teaching experience" (p.12), teacher educators "simply pass on the theory of teaching" (p.17) and many …