ISBN:
9783642369704
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 407 p. 10 illus., 5 illus. in color, online resource)
Series Statement:
New Frontiers of Educational Research
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Preparing teachers for the 21st century
Keywords:
Education
;
Education
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
China
;
Westliche Welt
;
Lehramtsstudium
Abstract:
This book addresses two main questions, namely how to prepare high-quality teachers in the 21st century and how the East and the West can learn from each other. It addresses the different challenges and dilemmas that eastern countries, especially China, and western countries are facing with regard to teacher education. We explore the question by examining teacher education research, practice and policy in different countries, identifying both common problems and country-specific challenges. We then try to find valuable experiences, theories and practice which can solve specific problems in the process of teacher education, also addressing how local and global factors impact it. In this regard, our approach does not strictly separate pre-service teacher education from teachers’ in-service professional development, adopting an integrative perspective. Further, we believe the respective social and cultural contexts must also be taken into account. Lastly, we call for teachers’ knowledge and individual character traits to be accounted for in the education of high-quality teachers
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Background and Highlight; Summary of the Book; Acknowledgement; Contents; Part I: Teacher Preparation and Teacher Quality; Chapter 1: Two Visions of Teaching and Teacher Education for the Twenty-First Century ; 1.1 The Landscape of Teacher Education in the United States; 1.2 Gaps in Schooling and Criticism of University Teacher Education; 1.3 Government and Foundation Responses to the Problems of Teacher Education in the U.S.; 1.4 Two Forms of Teacher Education and Two Vision of the Teaching Role; 1.5 The Future for Teaching and Teacher Education
Description / Table of Contents:
1.6 Problems with Disinvesting in University Teacher Education1.7 University Teacher Education Responds; References; Chapter 2: Teacher Quality in the Twenty First Century: New Lives, Old Truths; 2.1 Why Teacher Quality Matters; 2.2 Six Areas of Research Knowledge About Variation; 2.2.1 Area 1: Professional Life Phases; 2.2.2 Area 2: Professional Identity; 2.2.3 Area 3: Commitment and Resilience; 2.2.4 Area 4: The Leadership Effect; 2.2.5 Area 5: The Inquiring Professional; 2.2.6 Area 6: System Support; 2.3 Conclusion: The Quality Challenge; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 3: The Continuing 'Problem' of Teacher Education: Policy Driven Reforms and the Role of Teacher Educators 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Teacher Education as a Policy Problem: The Case of Australia; 3.3 Sustaining the Professionalization of Teacher Education: What Will the System Look Like and What is the Role of Teacher Educators?; 3.3.1 Professional Accountability; 3.3.2 Professional Standards: What Should Beginning Teachers Know and be Able to do (and be)?; 3.3.3 Judging What Beginning Teachers Know and are Able to do; 3.3.4 Researching Teacher Education: The Research We Have to Have
Description / Table of Contents:
3.4 Concluding CommentsReferences; Chapter 4: "Evidence-Based Teaching, Evidence-Based Teacher Education" (Quality of Teachers and Quality of Teacher Education) ; 4.1 The Teacher at the Centre of the Quality Debate; 4.2 Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning; 4.3 The Debate About the Quality of Teacher Education; 4.4 A Plea for Evidence-Based Models; 4.5 Model 1: Congruent Teacher Education: Teacher Education Models Future Practice; 4.6 Model 2: The Teacher as a Researcher; 4.7 Conclusions; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5: Practices, Experience and Policy Orientation for Free Education in Normal Universities in China5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Value Pursuit of Free Normal Education; 5.3 Best Practices and Exemplary Significance of Implementing Free Normal Education Policy; 5.4 Valuable Experience got from Piloting Free Normal Education; 5.5 Suggestions to Better Free Normal Education Policy; References; Part II: Preparing Teachers and Teacher Educators Globally and Locally; Chapter 6: Discussion of the Reconstruction of Rural Teacher Training Configuration in China; 6.1 Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
6.2 Existing Problems in Rural Teacher Training System in China
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-36970-4
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