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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815731403321

Autore

Edwards Anne <1946->

Titolo

Rethinking teacher education : collaborative responses to uncertainty / / Anne Edwards, Peter Gilroy, and David Hartley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002

ISBN

1-134-58110-6

1-134-58111-4

1-280-11144-5

0-203-98699-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GilroyPeter

HartleyDavid <1945->

Disciplina

370/.71

Soggetti

Teachers - Training of - Philosophy

Education - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-160) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Three themes and one overview; 2 Political and economic uncertainty and teachereducation; 3 Philosophical uncertainty and teacher education; 4 Modernist policy solutions; 5 Psychology: an agent of modernity in teachereducation?; 6 Collaborative responses to uncertainty; 7 Rethinking teacher education; 8 Delivering deliverance; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Rethinking Teacher Education is a thorough and critical analysis of the ambivalences and uncertainties that face those in teacher education. The authors draw on their different experiences of teacher education to try to make sense of current practices and where they might lead.The book analyzes past and present constructions of teacher education and offers insights into how a re-evaluation might address teachers' positions in relation to knowledge, learners, economic demands and democratic values. The issues addressed include:* political and economic uncertainty and teacher ed