Reconceptualizing Teacher Education

A Canadian Contribution to a Global Challenge
Herausgeber: Ng-A-Fook, Nicholas; Pinar, William; Phelan, Anne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection, Canadian scholars articulate a response to their collective concerns about the impact of global policy on teacher education, provoking a far-reaching dialogue about teacher education in and for our times. The first two decades of the new millennium have witnessed unprecedented appraisal, analysis, and educational policy formulations related to teaching (K-12) across the Western world. In turn, teacher education has been greatly impacted, as governments around the world see the reform and management of teacher education as a key component in restructuring education toward greater economic competitiveness. The result has been an unwarranted and undesirable level of standardization. It is vital to the future of teacher education, and concomitantly public education, that we imagine alternatives to the homogenization of the educational experience that globalizing policies install. What is needed are vocabularies that enable educators and teacher educators to discern and articulate educational purposes beyond capital and which focus on the kinds of educational experiences that can help prepare the young to lead good and worthwhile lives. Using lessons learned from the Canadian context, the authors identify and investigate the importance of initial and continuing professional education that fosters teachers' intellectual freedom and study; advances an informed and critical appreciation of civic particularity and historical circumstance; and cultivates ethical (i.e., pedagogical) engagement with ideas and histories--teachers' own and their students--as crucial themes of teacher education globally. This book is published in English

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Ottawa Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780776631127
• ISBN-10: 0776631128
• Artikelnr.: 57381801

Autorenporträt

Anne M. Phelan is a professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Teacher Education, in the Faculty of Education, at the University of British Columbia, Canada.  William F. Pinar is a professor and Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia. Nicholas Ng-A-Fook is a professor and director of the Teacher Education Program at the University of Ottawa. Ruth Kane is a professor and co-director of the Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services (CRECS), University of Ottawa.