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Private Universities In Kenya Seek Alternative Ways To Manage Change In Teacher Education Curriculum In Compliance With The Commission For University Education Reforms, Catherine Adhiambo Amimo
Private Universities In Kenya Seek Alternative Ways To Manage Change In Teacher Education Curriculum In Compliance With The Commission For University Education Reforms, Catherine Adhiambo Amimo
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
This study investigated management of change in teacher education curriculum in Private universities in Kenya. The study employed a concurrent mixed methods design that is based on the use of both quantitative and qualitative approaches. A multi-stage sampling process which included purposive, convenience, cluster, and snowball sampling methods was followed. The sample comprised of 5 chartered private universities which were offering teacher education by the year 2008. The respondents were 5 Deans from the School of education, one from each of the universities;14 Heads of Departments (H.O.D s), 32 Teacher Educators and 150 Teacher Trainees, 2 staffs from Commission for …
‘We Did The How To Teach It’: Music Teaching And Learning In Higher Education In Australia, Dawn Joseph
‘We Did The How To Teach It’: Music Teaching And Learning In Higher Education In Australia, Dawn Joseph
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
The Australian Government recognizes that the Arts are a critical part of formal school education and it should not be viewed as subordinate or extra. This paper forms part of a wider research project titled “Pre-service teacher attitudes and understandings of Music Education” that started in 2013. The focus of this paper investigates music teaching and learning in a core unit within the Bachelor of Education (Primary) course at Deakin University (Australia). Using questionnaire and interview data gathered in 2014, I employ Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to analyse and codify the data. Three themes are discussed in relation to: Why it …
Challenges For Curriculum Leadership In Contemporary Teacher Education, Robert J. Parkes
Challenges For Curriculum Leadership In Contemporary Teacher Education, Robert J. Parkes
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
This paper outlines the complex contemporary milieu of Australian teacher education within which curriculum leaders responsible for designing teacher education programs must make their program design decisions. Particular attention is paid to the collision of vertical (‘hierarchical’ or 'academic rationalist') and horizontal (‘flat’ or 'student-centred') curriculum discourses as a program design problem that has emerged within the current context; how it is intensified by an unexpected alliance between progressivist and new managerial curriculum discourses; and how this problem may be amplified in graduate entry teacher education programs. This paper concludes with a provocation to see the curriculum tensions and conditions …