The Swedish primary teacher education programme: at the crossroads between two education programme traditions

Background: Recent education-related research has raised concerns about the persistent exclusion of vulnerable learners in Uganda. The Revised Primary Teacher Education Curriculum of 2013 marked an ambitious yet inconclusive attempt to advance the implementation of inclusive education but has encountered deeply entrenched sociocultural exclusionary practices among education experts.Objectives: This study aimed to explicate education practitioners’ interpretations of Uganda’s flagship inclusive education programme in preservice primary teacher education.Method: Drawing on the conceptual vocabulary of frame analysis and the qualitative analysis of individual and group interviews and classroom observations, the interpretations of inclusive education implementation in preservice primary teacher education in Uganda were examined. The participants included policy design experts, curriculum design experts and classroom practitioners.Results: Three main findings emerged. Firstly, interpretations of inclusive education displayed a narrow framing heuristic of inclusive education as a perfunctory, daily practice rather than a pathway for reflective, inclusive pedagogical engagement. Secondly, the heuristic encouraged the treatment of inclusive pedagogy as a ‘label’ under a specific rubric referring to sensory impairments or disabilities – a historical device for sociocultural exclusion. Thirdly, inclusive education was a praxis but was misframed from its original intentions, causing tension and resentment among practitioners. These findings contribute to the debates on the sustainability of inclusive education beyond preservice teacher education.Conclusion: Uganda’s flagship inclusive education programme in preservice primary teacher education was fraught with tensions, ambiguities and an overt, urgent need for change.

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Organising the ‘industrialisation of instruction’: Pedagogical discourses in the Swedish Primary Teacher Education programme

Journal of Praxis in Higher Education ◽

10.47989/kpdc76 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 37-59

Author(s):

Lena Sjöberg

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Teacher Educators ◽

National Policy ◽

Education Programme ◽

Primary Teacher ◽

Local Policy ◽

Policy Practice ◽

Primary Teacher Education ◽

Pedagogical Discourses ◽

Empirical Material

This study examines the organisation of the Swedish Primary Teacher Education (PTE) programme by studying a local educational policy practice. The empirical material consists of policy documents and interviews with teacher educators at a large university. The study focuses on the pedagogical discourses in teacher education, by studying whether the examinations, courses, and education are based on insulation or integrating principles, that is, strong or weak classification. The results of the study show that both the national policy text and the local organisation are based on principles and rationalities of strong classification, where the local policy practice is both constructed through and affected by commodification and market rationalities.

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PENGARUH MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN DAN KECERDASAN GANDA TERHADAP HASIL BELAJAR TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI DAN KOMPUTER (TIK) MAHASISWA PGSD UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MEDAN

Jurnal Teknologi Pendidikan (JTP) ◽

10.24114/jtp.v5i2.4971 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Harun Sitompul ◽

Reni Astuti

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Multiple Intelligences ◽

Interactive Multimedia ◽

Primary Teacher ◽

Instructional Media ◽

Learning Achievement ◽

Instructional Process ◽

Regular Class ◽

Primary Teacher Education ◽

Level Of Significance

Abstract: The Effect Of Instructional Media And Multiple Intelligences On Student’s Learning Achievement On Information And Comunication Technology (ICT) Of Primary Teacher Education, State University Of Medan. The objectives of this quasi – experimental research were to discover: 1) whether the students learning achievement of Primary Teacher Education (PTE) in ICT taught by using CD interactive multimedia interactive instructional media was higher than learning achievement of PTE taught by using module instructional media, 2) whether the students learning achievement of PTE in ICT with spasial visual multiple intelligences was higher than student’s with verbal linguistic multiple intelligences, and 3) the interaction between instructional media and multiple intelligences in affecting the student’s learning achievement in ICT. The population of the study was 180 students of PTE who took the ICT from 6 classes namely 2 regular classes, 3 extension classes from the city government Academic year 2010/2011.Based on cluster random sampling technique 4 clasess taken from 2 reguler classes and 2 extention classes. The A regular class and A extension class using CD interactive multimedia instructional media and module was used in B regular class and B extention class. The research findings showed that : (1) the students’ learning achievement in ICT taught by using CD interactive multimedia instructional media was higher than the students’ taught by using module instructional media with Fcount = 11.65 > Ftables = 4.00 at the level of significance α = 0.05; (2) the students’ learning achievement in ICT with multiple intelligences spatial visual was higher than students’learning achievement with multiple intelligences verbal linguistic with Fcount = 11.65 > Ftables = 4.00 at the level of significance α = 0.05, and (3) there was an interaction between instructional media and multiple intelligences on students’ learning achievement in ICT where Fcount = 8,85 > Ftable = 4.00 at the level of significance α = 0.05. The conclusion of research is that application of the instructional media in the instructional process can improve the student’s learning achievement especially for PTE. Therefore, the implication is lecturers should be trained in order they can apply a more variative instructional process. So, it is the suggested that the lecturers should able use a variety of media for the success of the instructional process. Keywords : instructional media, multiple intelligences, interactive multimedia, module, spatial visual, verbal linguistic.

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