The young today are facing a world in which communication and information revolution has led to changes in all spheres: scientific, technological, political, economic, social and cultural. To be able to prepare our young people face the future with confidence purpose and responsibility, the crucial role of teachers cannot be overemphasized. Given these multidimensional demands, Role of teachers also have to change. In the past, teachers used to be a major source of knowledge, the leader and educator of their students school life. The changes that took place in education have initiated to change the role of teachers. In this article we will examine how the role of teachers in the present society has to change.
The young today are facing a world in which communication and information revolution has led to changes in all spheres: scientific, technological, political, economic, social and cultural. To be able to prepare our young people face the future with confidence purpose and responsibility, the crucial role of teachers cannot be overemphasized. Given these multidimensional demands, Role of teachers also have to change. In the past, teachers used to be a major source of knowledge, the leader and educator of their students school life. The changes that took place in education have initiated to change the role of teachers. In this article we will examine how the role of teachers in the present society has to change.
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Teacher education program should be structured and modified based on the findings of the researches in the field of education. Content, pedagogy, and technology are to be integrated. Furthermore, at the time of planning for teacher education program, policies, legislations, needs of the society and students, futuristic perspective, employability, technological advancement, and infrastructural issues should be given due attention.
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Teacher education program should be structured and modified based on the findings of the researches in the field of education. Content, pedagogy, and technology are to be integrated. Furthermore, at the time of planning for teacher education program, policies, legislations, needs of the society and students, futuristic perspective, employability, technological advancement, and infrastructural issues should be given due attention.
This chapter focuses on the key components of the curriculum of Initial Teacher education (ITE) and the ways in which it has been changing over the last years internationally. In particular, it analyses the place and role of the educational studies, subject matter studies, pedagogical studies (sometimes following a more didactic perspective) and practicum in initial teacher education programmes. The aim of the chapter is twofold: (1) to identify and contrast the ways in which the different key components are articulated in the curriculum of ITE programmes; (2) to analyse the rationale and underpinning assumptions of given models of teacher education, particularly the views and focus of the curriculum itself and the government intervention in the design of ITE programmes. It is argued that, in many contexts, teacher education curriculum has been subject of a rather restricted view in line with policies that point to a narrow perspective of school curriculum. However, it is also possible to identify programmes that integrate the key components of ITE curriculum, in particular theory and practice, subject knowledge and educational studies as well as practicum, in a more explicit way, through a research based design. ; CIEC – Research Centre on Child Studies, IE, UMinho (FCT R&D unit 317), Portugal; National Funds through the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) and co-financed by European Regional Development Funds (FEDER) through the Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Program (POCI) with the reference POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007562 ...
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the European Union's strategies both set goals for solving environmental challenges faced by societies and communities. As part of solving these challenges, both the UN and the EU stress the development of entrepreneurial and innovative education. Teacher education plays a crucial role in these efforts, since teachers and teacher educators have a significant impact on educating citizens far into the future. In this research, we studied how Nordic (Finnish, Swedish, and Icelandic) primary teacher education curricula involve entrepreneurial, sustainable, and pro-environmental education. For this study, the authors analyzed the B.Ed. curricula of three academic teacher education institutions in Spring 2021. We used qualitative content analysis as our research method. According to the results, all three curricula incorporated both entrepreneurship education and sustainable development to some extent, although often not very explicitly. Given the urgency of problems such as global climate change, the educational goals and contents in these curricula related to entrepreneurial education and sustainable development are very limited. The idea of integrating environmental/sustainable and entrepreneurship education could be promoted in the future more explicitly, with these interdisciplinary educational themes emphasised more strongly in the curricula and education policies.
The Nordic welfare state has been associated with certain ideas of citizenship, the highlights of which are equal rights, social mobility, democracy, and participation. To better understand how these ideas are interpreted in the educational system, this chapter compares school principals' prioritization of the aims of civic and citizenship education in four Nordic countries as they are expressed in IEA's International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS). We discuss our findings in relation to the Nordic model of education, meaning the governance of education epitomizing the Nordic welfare state. When comparing data from the survey of school principals in ICCS 2009 with ICCS 2016, we find a consistent prioritization of promoting students' critical thinking, while items concerning democratic participation are the lowest priority.While these results are similar to the international sample, the Nordic principals' support for promoting critical thinking is consistently stronger. In the Nordic welfare state, a shift toward neoliberal policies is seen as an adaption to economic challenges with an emphasis on development of human capital through knowledge, skills, and abilities. However, as critical thinking represents such abilities, this may also be seen as a prerequisite for social critique and political mobilization. We review these possibilities as representations of a break in or a continuation of the traditional ideas of citizenship associated with the Nordic welfare state. We conclude that, for Nordic principals, critical thinking may align with the recent international emphasis on competence while also relating to the concept of Bildung, an 18th-century emancipation ideal with deep roots in the Nordic model of education. ; publishedVersion
In 2018 the Italian government has proposed a bill to develop Physical Education PE in Primary school. The focus is the qualifications of Primary teachers throughout PE degree course for teaching qualifications instead the generalist training, as well as it happens in secondary school. Aim is to point out the core curriculum to become a specialist teacher of PE in the Italian primary school. It is a mapping activity providing a comparative data from all 38 Italian degree course in PE. It based on declared learning outcomes of four areas of knowledge: 1. sport and physical activity; 2. biological, biomedical and clinical; 3. psicopedagogical; 4. historical, legal, economic, statistical and sociological. Results shows that the percentage of degree course that curriculum focus on PES is 34%, while the percentage of curricula, focused on biological, biomedical and clinical area is 63%. It seems that, despite University aims to train professional in the field of PE, the degree courses of PE are mainly shaped to build biological, biomedical and clinical skills instead professional skills of PES. The core curriculum should be aim on the strict elements of physical training and sport sciences methodology and should have the same structure plane of subjects on all of 38 universities.
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the European Union's strategies both set goals for solving environmental challenges faced by societies and communities. As part of solving these challenges, both the UN and the EU stress the development of entrepreneurial and innovative education. Teacher education plays a crucial role in these efforts, since teachers and teacher educators have a significant impact on educating citizens far into the future. In this research, we studied how Nordic (Finnish, Swedish, and Icelandic) primary teacher education curricula involve entrepreneurial, sustainable, and pro-environmental education. For this study, the authors analyzed the B.Ed. curricula of three academic teacher education institutions in Spring 2021. We used qualitative content analysis as our research method. According to the results, all three curricula incorporated both entrepreneurship education and sustainable development to some extent, although often not very explicitly. Given the urgency of problems such as global climate change, the educational goals and contents in these curricula related to entrepreneurial education and sustainable development are very limited. The idea of integrating environmental/sustainable and entrepreneurship education could be promoted in the future more explicitly, with these interdisciplinary educational themes emphasised more strongly in the curricula and education policies.
Critical of various US studies and an Australian study conducted in New South Wales which assert that class size reductions have a positive effect on student achievement; argues that effective teaching is a far more important contributory factor and that local schools should have the authority to set their educational priorities. Based on two Issue Analysis papers, no. 29 and no. 29a, available on the Internet.
The teacher education is a period of great moments of rupture, which relate to the need of giving voice and working conditions to the movements of innovation and pedagogical renewal, who pretend to transmit new representations and positive expectations. Train teachers for the millennium and the knowledge society, where combat digital illiteracy is assumed to be urgent concern is a task that motivates educational reform movements that cross the world. However, this reform movement, should also mean that believes not only in the initial training - first step to permanently downgrade - which must be exhausting efforts personal, professional, institutional, political, budgetary and financial these new winds of reformism educational and systemic. Should mean, above all, a commitment to the teacher education, in response to the challenge of breaking the commonplace to recognize in theory its importance but simultaneously attend to the placing of obstacles to its implementation in schools. This chapter intends to describe the evolution of Teacher Education in Portugal, in the context of these variables, following a diachronic line, with emphasis on the current situation. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
