scholarly journals Exporting Finnish teacher education: Transnational pressures on national models

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Chung
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Training School ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

This article analyses empirical data to assess the possible transfer of Finnish teacher education policy, and more specifically, the university training school, into another context. Transnational organisations increasingly pressure nation-states to carry out education policy change, especially due to dissatisfaction with international assessment outcomes. As a high performer in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), administered by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Finland has been at the centre of international attention. PISA revealed that the high quality of Finnish teachers contributes to the overall calibre of the country’s education system. Thus, Finnish teacher education has become a model for other education systems. This article uses empirical research to explore the export possibilities of the Finnish normaalikoulu, or university training school. It implements qualitative methodology, using semi-structured interviews with Finnish educationalists to explore the possible export of Finnish education, the implications in terms of policy transfer, and the migration of ideas, specifically the university-affiliated, teacher training school. The export and migration of Finnish education and its impact on education policy are discussed in this article, along with educational export’s position in transnational policy formation.

scholarly journals Do Prospective Teachers Care About PISA Studies? A Pilot Study among University Students in Germany

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Ioannidou ◽  
Despoina Georgiou ◽  
Andreas Obersteiner ◽  
Nilufer Deniz Bas ◽  
Christine Mieslinger
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
International Student ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Very High ◽  
Expected Outcomes

The results of international comparison studies such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) have initiated intense discussions about educational reforms in Germany. Although in-service and pre-service teachers are an essential part of such reforms, little is known about their attitudes towards PISA studies. The present study aims to fill this gap through the investigation of pre-service teachers’ awareness, interest, perception, and attitudes towards PISA. A questionnaire was used to survey a sample of 107 university students who were participating in a teacher education program. The results reveal that 100% of the participants are aware of PISA. Nearly 69% of the participants think that the impact of PISA is rather high or very high, while 41% of them believe that PISA results are reliable. Accordingly, half of the participants seem to be interested in PISA results for their country. The present study discusses these findings in the light of the expected outcomes as proposed in standards for teacher education.

scholarly journals Preceptors’ perceptions of assessing clinical associate students at district hospital sites

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aloysious Kakia ◽  
Ian Couper
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
District Hospital ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
District Hospitals ◽  
University Support ◽  
Distributed Platform ◽  
The University

Background: Preceptors are key stakeholders in distributed health professions’ education. They supervise students in the clinical setting to enable them to have a practical experience with patients, and they assess students’ skills at the highest tier of clinical assessment. The university where this study was done conducts a distributed Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice course on a distributed platform which is dependent on preceptors at the training sites. Understanding the perceptions of preceptors, as major stakeholders, regarding the student assessment they do will assist the faculty to provide better support and development that might be needed and assist in maximising the benefits of distributed training.Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of preceptors regarding assessing clinical associate students at district hospitals in the Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice programme.Setting: The study was conducted at a rural university in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.Methods: This was a qualitative study involving nine preceptors who were purposively selected from three district hospital training sites based on their involvement in assessing clinical associate students. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, recorded, transcribed and thematically analysed.Results: Four themes emerged from thematic analysis: assessment issues, preceptor issues, student issues and university support issues. Preceptors are committed and enthusiastic in training and assessing the clinical associate students but require input from the university in terms of training and ongoing support.Conclusion: Lack of training threatens the validity of preceptor assessment. Academic institutions should train and support preceptors to enable them better to fulfil their roles.

Globalization of Educational Knowledge and Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keita Takayama
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
The West ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
Lesson Drawing

Transnational flows of educational knowledge and research are fundamentally guided by the global geopolitics of knowledge—the historically constituted relations of power born out of the continuing legacy of modernity/coloniality. In the early nation-building stage of the 19th century, state-funded education was at the core of states’ pursuit for economic and social progress. Newly formed nation states actively sought new educational knowledge from countries considered more advanced in the global race toward modernity and industrialization. The transnational lesson drawing in education at the time was guided by the view of modernity as originating in and diffusing from the West. This created the unidirectional flow of educational influence from advanced economies of the West to the rest of the world. Central to the rise of modernity in Western state formation is the use of education as a technology of social regulations. Through the expansion of state-funded education, people were turned into the people, self-governing citizens, and then the population that was amenable to a state’s social and economic calculation and military deployment. But this development was embedded in the geopolitical context of the time, in which Western modernity was deeply entangled with its underside, coloniality in the rest of the world. Various uses of education as a social control were tested out first in colonial peripheries and then brought back to the imperial centers. Today, the use of education for the modernist pursuit of perfecting society has been intensified through the constitution of the globalized education policy space. International organizations such as the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) act as the nodes through which transnational networks of education policy actors are formed, where the power of statistics for social and educational progress is widely shared. Both developed and developing countries are increasingly incorporated into this shared epistemological space, albeit through different channels and due to different factors. The rise of international academic testing such as OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has certainly changed the traditional pattern of education research and knowledge flows, and more lesson drawing from countries and regions outside the Anglo-European context is pursued. And yet, the challenges that PISA poses to the Eurocentric pattern of educational knowledge and research flows are curtailed by the persistence of the colonial legacy. This most clearly crystalizes in the dismissive and derogatory characterization of East Asian PISA high achievers in the recent PISA debate. Hence, the current globalization of education knowledge and research remains entangled with the active legacy of coloniality, the uneven global knowledge structure.

scholarly journals Resultados brasileiros no PISA e seus (des)usos

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (68) ◽  
pp. 344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria de Lourdes Haywanon Santos Araújo ◽  
Robinson Moreira Tenório
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Educational Assessment ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Fundamental Factor ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Palabras Clave

<p>O objetivo desta pesquisa consistiu em analisar como foram utilizados os resultados do Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Estudantes (PISA) no contexto educacional brasileiro. A revisão de literatura permitiu apontar a avaliação como um fator fundamental para a qualificação da educação, elaborar um panorama das pesquisas sobre o PISA no Brasil, além de propiciar discussões sobre a necessidade do uso dos resultados das avaliações em larga escala. A partir da análise documental e de entrevistas semiestruturadas, foi possível não apenas apresentar um estudo sobre o uso dos resultados do PISA no país, mas também estabelecer categorias de usos como o Uso Indevido ou Não Uso, apresentando as possibilidades e dificuldades dessa utilização e o papel dos gestores nesse processo.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Pisa; Uso de Resultados; Avaliação Educacional; Políticas Públicas.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Resultados brasileños en el PISA y sus (des)usos</em></strong></p><p><em>El objetivo de este estudio consistió en analizar cómo se utilizaron los resultados del Programa Internacional de Evaluación de Estudiantes (PISA) en el marco educacional brasileño. La revisión de literatura permitió que la evaluación se considerase como un factor fundamental para la cualificación de la educación y se elaborase un panorama de las investigaciones sobre PISA en Brasil, además de propiciar discusiones sobre la necesidad del uso de los resultados de las evaluaciones en gran escala. A partir del análisis documental y de entrevistas semiestructuradas, se hizo posible no solo presentar un estudio sobre el uso de los resultados de PISA en el país, sino también establecer categorías de usos, como el Uso Indebido o No Uso, presentando las posibilidades y dificultades de dicha utilización y el papel de los gestores en este proceso.</em></p><p><em><strong>Palabras-clave:</strong> PISA; Uso de Resultados; Evaluación Educacional; Políticas Públicas.</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong><em>Brazilian results in PISA and its (mis)uses</em></strong></p><p><em>The objective of this study was to analyze how the results of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) were used in the Brazilian educational context. The literature review showed that assessment is a fundamental factor for the qualification of education, for elaborating an overview of the PISA studies in Brazil, as well as for promoting discussions about the need to use the results of evaluations on a large scale. Based on the documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews, it was possible not only to present a study on the use of the PISA results in the country but also to establish categories of uses, such as Improper Usage or Lack of Usage, showing the possibilities and difficulties of such use and the administrators’ role in this process.</em></p><p><em><strong>Keywords:</strong> PISA; Use of Results; Educational Assessment; Public Policies.</em></p>

scholarly journals The Mobility of Education Policy in the 21st Century: Lessons from Other Fields

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-93
Author(s):  
Alan Ruby ◽  
Aisi Li
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Comparative Education ◽  
Policy Diffusion ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
National Education ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
External Incentives

The ways information about national education policies is exchanged and interpreted is a field of comparative education that is under-developed. What discussion and analysis there is seems to ignore the insights and models prevalent in other domains. We looked to fields like political science, and economic and social development for concepts to strengthen the analysis of education policy mobility between nations. We found an abundance of metaphors most of which fail to capture key elements of policy diffusion including the notion that ideas change as they cross cultural boundaries. We observe that policy transfer can be purposefully initiated by the host as well as a product of coercion or external incentives. Our principal conclusions are that common framings of traveling education policies are linear, one-directional and marked by an air of beneficence. They overlook the importance of context and the actions of sovereign nations in policy formation.

Teacher Education in Singapore

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Loh ◽  
Guangwei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
Teacher Training College

Since the turn of this century, and especially in the past decade, Singapore has consistently done well in international benchmark studies, be it the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), or the International Baccalaureate diploma assessment. Singapore’s sterling performance in these different benchmark assessments has been widely attributed to the quality of its teaching force, which is, in turn, ascribed to the teacher education programs provided by its sole teacher education institution – the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Teacher education began during the country’s colonial past, but there was no designated provider of comprehensive training until teacher training was institutionalized in 1950, when the Teacher Training College was established. After Singapore gained independence in 1965, the institution’s capacity expanded rapidly as a teacher training department and later as a statutory board within the Ministry of Education. In 1991, to raise the stature of teacher education, the Teacher Training College was incorporated as an autonomous institute within the newly formed NTU. Due to the need to ensure the survival of a tiny island nation over the years, it has been imperative to educate the population for industry and development. In the process, tensions have arisen from: (a) the recruitment of huge numbers of teachers and the concomitant quality of their training, (b) collaboration with the Ministry of Education, and (c) the influence of educational research on theory and practice. In the third decade of the 21st century, with the stranglehold that neoliberalism has on many educational systems around the world, including Singapore, will NIE be able to prepare its future teachers to navigate and survive in such a climate, while continuing to strengthen its theory-practice nexus? With the dwindling of student numbers across all sectors and the accompanying reduced need for new teachers in the country, will NIE look beyond the shores of Singapore, internationalize its programs, and take on a leadership role in the region?

The political decision on Portugal’s entry into PISA: A research note

2020 ◽  
pp. 147821032097153
Author(s):  
Teresa Teixeira Lopo
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
International Student ◽  
Student Assessment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
National Education ◽  
International Student Assessment ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Government

In this article we carry out a preliminary reconstitution of the genealogy of the political decision to integrate Portugal in PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), promoted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, made in 1999 and implemented in 2000. For this we used a comprehensive analysis of newspaper articles, legal texts and documents on education policy as well as of interviews with relevant political actors. The first results of this analysis suggest that the decision, which was not unanimous among the government members with responsibilities in the education field, was taken by normative emulation, and aimed to consolidate a particular direction of the national education policy.

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