The role of initial teacher training in the promotion of a lifelong learning culture: a conflict of ideals?

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 416-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barrie A. Irving
2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-150
Author(s):  
Eugenia Potulicka

SummaryInitial teacher training in England and Wales is radically reformed since the 2010 year. Many new ways of training were introduced, namely: School-Centered Initial Teacher Training, School Direct, apprenticeship, Teach First, Troops to Teachers and others. The role of universities in teacher training is severe diminished with many implications for the quality of teachers and teaching as well as for the identity of academic teachers, their role and the lack of stability. Of course those changes have a lot of implications for universities, especially for their Schools of Education. Some of them disappeared.


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