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Quality and Change in Teacher Education

Western and Chinese Perspectives

  • Describes the historical contexts, policies and practices of teacher education
  • Illustrates the differences new reforms of teacher education make on curriculum, teaching and assessment
  • Explores the 'quality' issue of teacher education and issues in the implementation of change in teacher education?

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Innovative and Effective Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment Practices of Teacher Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
    2. Different Modes of Field Experience in Teacher Education Programmes

      • May May-Hung Cheng, John Chi-Kin Lee
      Pages 129-147
    3. Initial Teacher Education and Assessment of Graduates in Australia

      • Diane Mayer, Andrea Allard, Julianne Moss, Mary Dixon
      Pages 149-162
    4. E-portfolios in Pre-service Teacher Education: Sustainability and Lifelong Learning

      • Cher Ping Lim, John Chi-Kin Lee, Nan Jia
      Pages 163-174
    5. Preservice Teachers’ Reflective Journaling: A Way to Know Culture

      • Cheryl J. Craig, Yali Zou, Gayle Curtis
      Pages 175-194

About this book

How teachers may be better educated for a changing global world is a challenge that faces many systems of education worldwide. This book addresses key issues of quality and change in teacher education in the context of the new public management achievement agendas which are permeating teacher education structures, cultures and programmes and the work of teacher educators internationally. Graduate schools of education in the United States and the UK, for example, are making fundamental changes in the structures, courses, programs and faculties that prepare beginning teachers each year. Drawing upon examples from the United States, United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, Australia and elsewhere, its authors provide a unique critical overview of emerging themes and challenges of  raising the quality of teaching and the quality of student learning outcomes. They suggest possible ways forward for teachers, teacher educators, researchers and policy-makers as they seek to raise the quality of teaching and student outcomes whilst sustaining their moral purposes and values of equity, inclusion and social justice. Taken together, the chapters contain informed, critical discussions of “normal education” and “teacher education”  of “professional standards”, “4+2/+1” post-degree training, “PGDE versus BEd”, integration of subject specializations and professional education. Each one provides new visions of the teacher as a professional and to cultivate high quality teachers in the West and the Greater China region. For all those interested in issues of quality, change and forward movement in teacher education in contexts of policy led reform, this is a must read.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    John Chi-Kin Lee

  • School of Education, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Christopher Day

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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