Rich Contexts to Emphasize Social Justice in Teacher Education: Curriculum and Pedagogy in Professional Development Schools Special Issue: Partnering for Equity

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheryl V. Taylor ◽  
Donna M. Sobel
2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-485
Author(s):  
Jelena Vranjesevic

This paper explores the main challenges in teacher education for diversity: the dominant regimes of truth in society that reinforce existing stereotypes/prejudices, the gap between pre-service and in-service teacher education and professional development, the fragmentation of teacher education system, the competences of teacher educators and lack of research and research-based practice when it comes to education for diversity. The paper discusses the impacts of these challenges on teacher professional role as well as the support needed to overcome some of them. The changes need to be made in two domains: the teacher education curriculum that should reflect the idea of teachers as autonomous professionals who initiate and create their own practice, and the education system that needs to support and encourage the autonomy and initiative of teachers and in which teachers could be visible as active participants/leaders in the process of change.


2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Jung Kim ◽  
Soo Jeung Lee ◽  
Jung Cheol Shin ◽  
Jae Geun Kim ◽  
June hee Yoo ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Indrajeet Dutta ◽  
Sonal Chabra ◽  
Vanita Chopra

India has one of the largest systems of teacher education in the world. Besides the university departments of education and their affiliated colleges, government and government aided institutions; private and self-financing colleges and open universities are also engaged in teacher education. Though most teacher education programmes are nearly identical yet their standards vary across institutions and universities. However, teacher education curriculum across the country has been blamed for ineptitude and needs urgent reforms. Teacher educators are a pivotal point of this programme and their opinion regarding the curriculum is very important. Keeping the above in mind, the present study aimed to find out the attitude of teacher educators towards existing teacher education curriculum and the needed renewal in teacher education curriculum. Data was collected from randomly selected 107 teacher educators working in colleges of education affiliated to GGSIPU and M.D.U. A five point attitude scale was developed by the researchers for the purpose of ascertaining their attitude. The findings revealed that teacher educators are largely in disagreement with the current curriculum and hold that a new vision needs to be made for the education of teachers as per the present needs of globalisation, RTE norms, and adoption of inclusive education.


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