scholarly journals Pedagogical Studies in Teacher Education: Reintroducing methodology as the core of pedagogical studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-149
Author(s):  
Marianne Vinje
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Content ◽  
Basic Concepts

Den historiske utviklingen til pedagogikkfaget i norsk lærerutdanning kan studeres på mange måter. Gjennom dokumentanalyse av de nasjonale planene fra 1837 til de differensierte utdanningene i 2010, forsøker denne studien å forklare fagets opplevde mangel på relevans for lærerprofesjonen. Resultatene viser at det ikke er noen konsistent bruk av begreper i faget, og begrep som anvendes på didaktiske kategorier i klasserommet har variert. Ulike disipliner har dominert til ulike tider, selv om psykologien totalt sett har vært mest fremtredende. Pedagogikkens rolle har variert fra å være utdanningens viktigste fag til å være et refleksjonsfag og, fra å være et redskapsfag til å ha danning og personlighetsutvikling av lærerstudenten som hovedmål. På bakgrunn av dokumentanalysen og tidligere studier foreslås en lærerutdanningspedagogikk der grunnleggende begreper hentet fra sentrale aktiviteter i klasserommet utgjør fundamentet og rammeverket. På denne måten re-introdu­seres metodikken i pedagogikkfaget, og undervisningshåndverket får en sentral plass. Overbygningen dannes i kombinasjon med pedagogikken som vitenskap, og slik skapes et område der pedagogikkfaget i lærerutdanningen kan konstituere seg. Ved at undervisnings­læren og metodikken får tilbake sin sentrale plass, kan profesjonsnærheten sikres. Da er vi tilbake til den egentlige pedagogikken i lærerutdanningen, pedagogikken fra de nasjonale planene i perioden 1837–1939.Nøkkelord: lærerstudenter, pedagogikk, metodikk, læreplan, refleksjon, lærerutdannings­pedagogikkAbstractOne way to study the historical development of pedagogical studies in Norwegian teacher education is to examine the national curricula. Through documentary analyses of the national curricula for general teacher education from 1837 until the arrival of the differentiated programmes in 2010, this study tries to explain the pedagogical studies’ perceived lack of relevance to the profession. The findings show an inconsistent use of concepts in pedagogical studies and varying concepts describing didactic categories of classroom activities and prac­tices, if they are present. The role of pedagogy in teacher education has varied, from being the main subject to a subject of reflection, and from a base for knowledge and tools to a base for reflection and formation. This article suggests that pedagogical studies must primarily include basic concepts concerning central activities or practices of the teaching profession as a way to reintroduce methodology and bring teacher education closer to the profession. With classroom activities as the foundation and framework, combined with the science of education, a pedagogy of teacher education can constitute itself. This approach also brings pedagogical studies back to the curricula covering the 1837–1939 period with teaching as their core content, and teaching methodology and didactics as the real pedagogy of teacher education.Keywords: student teachers, pedagogical studies, methodology, national curricula, reflection, pedagogy of teacher education

scholarly journals Teacher Preparation by Universities: Internal Stakeholders Perception of Teacher Education Curriculum Content in Makerere and Kyambogo Universities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdu Kisige ◽  
Betty Akullu Ezati ◽  
Alice Merab Kagoda
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Curriculum Content ◽  
Teacher Education Curriculum ◽  
Internal Stakeholders

Developing a teacher education curricular content is an enduring concern for teacher educators. A continuous method to providing quality teacher education curriculum content discloses the potential for teacher educators to produce high-quality teachers. Drawing on data from twenty teacher educators and sixteen student teachers in public institutions in Uganda, this article explored the perceptions of the teacher education curriculum content held by academic staff and student teachers in public Universities in Uganda. Using Pedagogical Content Knowledge Model as a tentative model of teacher preparation and Constructivism theory as an interpretive framework, the study was guided by one objective namely: (1) to analyze the perception of internal stakeholders about teacher education curriculum content offered in Makerere and Kyambogo Universities. This research adopted a qualitative, multiple case study design that was anchored in the interpretivist paradigm and directed by the social constructivism thinking. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews were participants from twenty teacher educators and sixteen student teachers who were purposively and conveniently selected. It was therefore concluded that both lecturers and student teachers viewed teacher education curriculum content positively viewing it as enabling learners to be equipped with specialized teaching skills, essentially directed towards teaching profession. Thus, recommendations to improve the stakeholder perception of the teacher education curriculum content are made and these include: teacher education curriculum review and the need to design a 21st-century teacher education curriculum by teacher trainers in corroboration with other university units rendering a training service to teacher trainees. This would bridge the gap of the disjointed teacher education curriculum content at Makerere and Kyambogo Universities hence strengthening the building blocks that produce a teacher.

scholarly journals Elkarrizketak irakasleen prestakuntzarako bitarteko: irakasle-bideratzaileen jarduna ezaugarritzen

Tantak ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-116
Author(s):  
Eneritz Garro ◽  
Nagore Ipiña ◽  
Arantza Ozaeta
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThe aim of the present paper is to analyse and characterise the way in which teacher educators work with student teachers when conducting analyses of their own practice by means of selfconfrontation interviews. The corpus of this work consists of 10 self-confrontation interviews carried out by 5 teacher educators. The role of those teacher educators was analysed using the transcriptions of the interviews and 9 categories were identified. Two categories were found to be the most common: demanding specifications and creating controversy. Differences were also found as regards teacher educators’ profile. As a result, in-depth training for teacher educators has been considered as needed.KEYWORDS: initial teacher education, teacher educators, analysis of the activity, self-confrontation interviews.LABURPENALan honen helburua da aztertzea eta ezaugarritzea unibertsitateko irakasle-bideratzaileek zer nolako bidaidetza mota egiten duten etorkizuneko irakasleekin euren praktikaren analisia bideoaren aurreko autokonfrontazio elkarrizketak egiten ari direnean. 5 irakasle-bideratzailek egindako 10 autokonfrontazio elkarrizketak osatutako corpusean,. aztertu da irakasle-bideratzaile horien rola ikasleekin egindako autokonfrontazio elkarrizketen transkribapenetan eta euren jarduna 9 kategoriatan banatu da. Horietatik bi zehaztapenak eskatzea eta kontrobertsia sortzea, dira elkarrizketetan erabilienak. Irakasle-bideratzailearen profilaren arabera, ordea, ezberdintasunak sumatu dira jarduteko moduetan eta, ondorioz, prestakuntza eredua partekatua izan dadin irakasle-bideratzaileen prestakuntzan sakondu beharko litzateke. GAKO-HITZAK: irakasleen hasierako prestakuntza, irakasle-bideratzailea, jardueraren analisia, autokonfrontazio elkarrizketa.

scholarly journals Social cultural environment and public administration management based on the change of main social contradictions

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Xiao Li ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
State Control ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Content ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
Role Of The Government

The main contents of the ethical norms of public administration are the supremacy of public welfare, harmful inaction, and careful use of power, social responsibility, equal competition and enhancement of trust. Contradiction is a philosophical category reflecting the unity of opposites within and between things, and is the core content of materialist dialectics. The main social contradiction is the one that occupies the core position and dominates the society. Administration itself is not the ultimate goal, it is a series of communication channels to convey people's needs and wishes, and to ensure that these needs and wishes can be reflected and considered through state control. Similarly, these channels also play the role of the government in conveying policies and implementing tasks to the people. Therefore, if these channels are to make positive and significant contributions to people-centered development, the role of administration must adapt to the social-cultural environment and tradition.

scholarly journals Lärarna och lämpligheten

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 244-267
Author(s):  
Per Gerrevall
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
School Level ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Relational Competence ◽  
The Core ◽  
Important Field

Education of teachers and teacher competence has been an important field since the establishment of Pedagogy as science. This article relates to research concerning teacher competence and conditions for admission to teacher education. The purpose is to identify what is characterized as ineligible in connection with admission to teacher education, in assessing becoming teachers’ pedagogical actions, and in professional teachers’ vocational practice. Within a research group at Linnaeus University, we have in two projects studied the gatekeeping function to the teaching profession. The core of the projects consists of the assessment of eligibility that takes place before and during teacher training as well as during teachers’ professional practice. On admission to teacher education, it is mainly on communicative and relational grounds that an applicant may be deemed ineligible to become a teacher. In teacher education a didactical dimension is added as well as an analytical and reflective dimension, which means being able to reflect critically over practice on a scientific ground, or on ethical grounds. In teachers’ professional practice, shortcomings in communicative and relational competence as well as actions that contradict ethical grounds constitute predominant reasons for being considered ineligible. Shortcomings in educational skills are generally handled at school level.

EFFECTIVE SKILL TRAINING IN TEACHEREDUCATION: NEED OF THE HOUR

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Paul Devanesan
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Future Society ◽  
Important Field

Teaching is a profession and teacher are called professionals. The main role of Teaching Profession is to promote and strengthen Education which leads to qualitative expansion in the field of Education and particularly Teacher Education is an important field in which efficient Teacher and skillful teachers shape our future society. This field also preparing teachers to get professional competency and therefore Teacher Training is not a mere Training. It is actually the acquisition of knowledge based skills and abilities which assist teachers to discharge their professional activities and responsibilities in an effective and efficient way. Otherwise it will not reshape the attitude, habit and personality of the Teacher. Unless Teachers have necessary skills, he cannot perform his profession with absolute satisfaction. Therefore varieties of skills must be developed among Teachers through systematic implementation in New Curriculum to modernize teacher Education programme.

Implementation of Flipped Classroom at Malaysia's Teacher Education Institute

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
Malar Muthiah ◽  
Raamani Thannimalai
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Learning Instruction ◽  
Teacher Education Institutions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
History Test

In a teacher education institute in Malaysia, blended learning is considered as a strategic and effective learning instruction with unique features to help improve student-teacher's discussion skills, improve their communities of practice, and achieve their course purposes. One of the tools of blended learning is flipped classroom. Flipped classroom should be implemented especially among student teachers. The definition of flipped classroom was explained in detail, and furthermore, flipped classroom activities are based on social and cognitive constructivist theory that is suitable to be implemented in teacher education institutions in Malaysia because it is student-centered and involved students actively during the learning process. A research done in one of the teacher education institutions was discussed to find out the effect of flipped classroom in achievement history test and motivation among the 20 student teachers who enrolled for Early European History until 21st Century as one of their major papers.

The Role of Teacher Education in Developing Employability Skills in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Joyce Bukirwa Sessanga ◽  
Badru Musisi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Broad Understanding

This chapter explores the need to equip student teachers with the skills that will enable them to train and develop their learners for employability. However, given the broad understanding of employability, it is important to recognize that the quality of a university graduate is not just a reflection of the quality of the curriculum and its supporting academic environment. It reflects the demands of the industry as well as the competence of the regulating body (i.e. related government institutions) in shaping the characteristics of higher education graduates. It might be overly simplistic to say that universities are encouraged, if not pressured, to produce employable graduates. The higher education sector therefore needs to recognize and understand the context of employability for their graduates to ensure that their students can live up to the expectations from governments and employers.

Exploring Professional Development of Teachers: The Case of Ethiopia, Finland, India and Singapore

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Gara Latchanna ◽  
Mittireddy Venkataramana ◽  
Abebe Garedew
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Special Needs Education ◽  
Professional Development Of Teachers

The paper attempts to provide a snapshot of the current practices in the Professional Development of Teachers (PDoT) in four selected countries namely, Ethiopia, Finland, India and Singapore. PDoT has been analysed in the form of a continuum of Initial Teacher Education (ITE), Induction and Continuous Professional Development (CPD). The survey of literature revealed that for ITE in two countries, i.e. Ethiopia and India, the system was unable to attract competent applicants, as a result ofwhich the professional competence of teachers suffered. On the other hand, Finland and Singapore were the epitomes of having effective ITE system. The ability to attract candidates with high potential into ITE, right amount of emphasis on theory and practice in ITE programmes, the existence of effective CPD and rigorous professional development community involving the ministry of education, universities of teacher education and schools, and high prestige for the teaching profession enabled Finland and Singapore to be the star performers in PDoT. In Finland, the provision of one-year CPD training on special needs education to all teachers and professional autonomy to teachers were the salient features whereas in Singapore, a monthly stipend for student teachers during initial teacher education and multifarious career tracks for the teacher were a few additional features. 'This survey of literature has presented significant lessons drawn from eachrespective country regardingpractices in PDoT.

scholarly journals Hvor godt er lærere forberedt på den digitale hverdagen?

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-86
Author(s):  
Greta Björk Gudmundsdottir ◽  
Julius K. Björnsson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Student Activities ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Analytical Tools

How well are teachers prepared for digital technology in their work? In this chapter, we report on questions in the TALIS 2018 survey concerning information and communication technology (ICT). Teachers were asked how they use digital technology for student activities, how prepared they are for digital practice, and how they assess their own need for continuous professional development (CDP) related to using digital technology in a classroom setting. This chapter is divided into two main parts. In the first part, we introduce previous research in the field of digital competence. We look at how the use of digital technology has evolved in Norwegian schools and how it has been supported by various educational reforms. We also refer to frameworks and various analytical tools to better understand students’ digital competence and teachers’ professional digital competence (PDC). Furthermore, we consider the role of teacher education in developing teachers’ and student teachers’ PDC. In the second part of the chapter, we present findings from TALIS 2018. Here we highlight teachers’ needs and participation in CPD, the preparations they have received in teacher education, and how they use digital technology to promote students’ learning and engagement in various teaching activities. Findings on classroom management in technology-savvy environments are presented, and the general use of ICT within a Nordic comparative perspective is discussed. In conclusion, we summarize the most important findings and raise issues in need of further research.

scholarly journals Application Of Principles Of Total Quality Management (TQM) In Teacher Education Institutions

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Manivannan ◽  
K. S. Premila
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Exploratory Technique ◽  
Teacher Education Institutions

The indomitable spirit of higher education paves the way for the growth of a nation in the political, economic, social, intellectual and spiritual dimensions. Teacher education is one of the areas in higher education which trains student-teachers in pedagogy, which in turn helps them to train the young minds of educational institutions. The “Fate of the nation is decided in the classroom,” is a remark made by the Education Commission of India. Such classrooms are created by committed and dedicated teachers. These teachers are trained in teacher education institutions. Teacher education institutions should maintain quality to ensure the academic excellence of trainees who come into the teaching profession. Quality is a comparative standard prescribed for those institutions that are on the quest for output brilliance. Quality assurance in teacher education reflects on the high profile of the institution and the competency of student-teachers. The present study on the application of principals of TQM in teacher education institutions in India has exposed the tangibility of institutions in the perception of teachers based on eleven quality indicators, such as principal as leader, teacher quality, linkage and interface, students, co-curricular activities, teaching, office management, relationships, material resources, examinations and job satisfaction. A total of nine colleges of education was selected to collect data. The exploratory technique under the survey method of research design was used for the study. A tool - ‘Teacher Institutional Profile’ (TIP) - was constructed, standardized and used for data collection. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were made for finding and interpreting results. The findings focus on the strong and weak areas of various teacher education institutions according to the quality indicators. The study recommends further strengthening of quality indicators, which are already strong, and the revamping of weaker quality indicators. It is also recommended that institutions should adhere to the quality standards set by national and international assessment and accreditation bodies. In conclusion, the global scenario expects skilled teachers to produce students with a versatile personality for which teacher education should be strengthened.

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