Description
How was the crisis of teacher supply, teaching quality, and the crisis of confidence in initial teacher education (ITE) policy formation in England constructed? In this open access book, leading teacher educators and researchers provide unique insights into the 'great experiment' in ITE in England, including insights from people who were 'in the room' at critical junctures in the process. International researchers also contribute chapters that highlight the distinctive approach England has taken and why it is now an outlier in terms of ITE policy. The chapters show how it is the relationship between the state and the market - the state rejecting the market when it doesn't deliver the required ideological solution - that makes ITE reform in England so interesting and why it is important it is brought to international attention. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Monash University.
Provides critical perspectives on globally significant reforms to the provision of initial teacher education in England, exploring the relationship between the state, the idea of 'markets', and public universities
About the Author
Viv Ellis is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.
Reviews
An excellent analysis of the policy construction and rhetorical 'crisis' which has been used to justify the government's 'Market Review' and subsequent re-accreditation process. It shows how evidence of the high quality of English ITE was ignored, so that an ideological, un-tested experiment could be imposed, complete with new 'world-leading' providers who have never trained a teacher, and a narrow technicist franchised curriculum. Most alarming is the outline of the limited and interconnected group of influential policy entrepreneurs who suggest, are consulted on, and then benefit from these policy changes. -- Edward Podesta, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Leeds Trinity University, UK
A hard hitting and honest account of the impact of policy change in teacher education told through the voices of teacher educators who have had to navigate the crisis! -- Karan Vickers-Hulse, Associate Head of Department for ITE, University of the West of England Bristol, UK
This book lifts the lid on the recent reforms of teacher education. Although it lambasts the myopic and ideological power grab by recent governments over the education of teachers, it also provides an outstanding synthesis of the causes and effects of this disaster and some small hope for the future. -- David Leat, Professor of Curriculum Innovation, Newcastle University, UK
This authoritative collection of accounts written by a range of key stakeholders helpfully illuminates, with a depressing degree of accuracy, the havoc wreaked by successive policy makers over the past decade on the once successful system for providing pre-service teacher education in England. -- Janet Orchard, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion in Teacher Education, University of Bristol, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781350399655
Author Professor Viv Ellis
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Provides critical perspectives on globally significant reforms to the provision of initial teacher education in England, exploring the relationship between the state, the idea of 'markets', and public universities
About the Author
Viv Ellis is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.
Reviews
An excellent analysis of the policy construction and rhetorical 'crisis' which has been used to justify the government's 'Market Review' and subsequent re-accreditation process. It shows how evidence of the high quality of English ITE was ignored, so that an ideological, un-tested experiment could be imposed, complete with new 'world-leading' providers who have never trained a teacher, and a narrow technicist franchised curriculum. Most alarming is the outline of the limited and interconnected group of influential policy entrepreneurs who suggest, are consulted on, and then benefit from these policy changes. -- Edward Podesta, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Leeds Trinity University, UK
A hard hitting and honest account of the impact of policy change in teacher education told through the voices of teacher educators who have had to navigate the crisis! -- Karan Vickers-Hulse, Associate Head of Department for ITE, University of the West of England Bristol, UK
This book lifts the lid on the recent reforms of teacher education. Although it lambasts the myopic and ideological power grab by recent governments over the education of teachers, it also provides an outstanding synthesis of the causes and effects of this disaster and some small hope for the future. -- David Leat, Professor of Curriculum Innovation, Newcastle University, UK
This authoritative collection of accounts written by a range of key stakeholders helpfully illuminates, with a depressing degree of accuracy, the havoc wreaked by successive policy makers over the past decade on the once successful system for providing pre-service teacher education in England. -- Janet Orchard, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion in Teacher Education, University of Bristol, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781350399655
Author Professor Viv Ellis
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
