TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellis,Viv
AU  - McNicholl,Jane
TI  - Transforming teacher education: reconfiguring the academic work 
SN  - 9781472507204 (paperback)
AV  - LB1738 .E45 2015
U1  - 378.1/20941 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - College teachers
KW  - Training of
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - In-service training
KW  - England
KW  - EDUCATION / Professional Development
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Viv Ellis is Professor of Educational Leadership and Teacher Development at King's College, UK and a Visiting Professor at Bergen University College, Norway.

ane McNicholl is Associate Professor of Science Education at the University of Oxford, UK; Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-167) and index; Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Transforming Teacher Education -- 1. Teacher Education as a Policy Problem -- 2. Teacher Education as Academic Work -- 3. Teacher Educators at Work: The Division of Labour -- 4. Teacher Educators at Work: Narratives of Experience -- 5. Teacher Educators, Proletarianization and the Discipline of Education -- 6. Public Universities and the Profession of Teaching: Towards an Agenda for Transformation -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - "Teacher education has a central role in the improvement of educational systems around the world but what do the teacher educators in universities and colleges actually do? Day-to-day, how do they support the learning and development of the thousands of new teachers we need every year? And why does this matter? Drawing on recent research by the authors, situated in the growing international literature, Transforming Teacher Education puts these questions in cultural and historical context and offers a practical answer in the form of an original agenda for the transformation of current conditions in teacher education with future designs for practice. Viv Ellis and Jane McNicholl argue that the academic work of teacher education needs to be reconfigured in order to stimulate the renewal of the profession of teaching and to develop new modes of educational research that will have impact on practice as well as building the discipline of Education within the universities. They offer suggestions for future designs for teacher education, drawing not only on the latest research in teacher learning and development but from across the social sciences"--
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