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Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education
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Preferred Models Of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Collette Tayler
Preferred Models Of Early Childhood Teacher Education, Collette Tayler
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Early childhood teacher education in Australia continues to be a topic of contention. The erosion of specialized early childhood courses during the early 1980's was indicated by Briggs (1984) in the face of then new shared structures with primary teacher education. Restructuring of courses at that time was brought about by amalgamations of many higher education institutions which provided courses for teachers. At that time, the tertiary education sector began what has become the most significant post-war re-arrangement of higher education Australia has witnessed. Course developments in 1984 were illustrative of the kinds of amalgamations which were taking place and …