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PRAXEOLOGICAL LEARNING SERVICE-LEARNING IN TEACHER EDUCATION -- PRAXEOLOGICAL LEARNING SERVICE-LEARNING IN TEACHER EDUCATION -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- REFERENCES -- BIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION ONE: THEORY AND RESEARCH -- Chapter 1 SERVICE-LEARNING + SOCIAL JUSTICE = JUSTICE-LEARNING -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SERVICE-LEARNING -- SERVICE-LEARNING IN TEACHER EDUCATION -- SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION -- SOCIAL JUSTICE TEACHER EDUCATION -- JUSTICE-LEARNING IN TEACHER EDUCATION -- Inquiry -- Curriculum-Designers -- Placements in Diverse Settings

This is a descriptive study. Objectives of the research included: examination of modern tendencies in Teacher Education and find out the breaks and give ideas for improvement of Teacher Education Programs of the region. The population of the research was all teacher education organizations of the province. The sample comprised 55 Course instructors of these institutions. The device of the research analysis was a questionnaire. The data was analyzed and the result was shown in percentage in tables. The literature review explored diverse directions of the concern and reflected the requirements of Teacher Education and Transformations, teachers Quality, Teachers Competencies and Policy. The traditional trend is in practice and the pursuit of quality scares teaching. It is recommended in the research report that technology integration in Teacher Education. The research suggests that the government should take timely notice of the need and importance of the use of modern technologies.

This volume captures the innovative, theory-based, and grounded work being done by established scholars who are interrogating how teacher education can prepare teachers to work in challenging and diverse high-poverty settings. It offers articles from the US, Australia, Canada, the UK and Chile by some of the most significant scholars in the field. Internationally, research suggests that effective teachers for high poverty schools require deep theoretical understanding as well as the capacity to function across three well-substantiated areas: deep content knowledge, well-tuned pedagogical skills, and demonstrated attributes that prove their understanding and commitment to social justice. Schools in low socioeconomic communities need quality teachers most, however, they are often staffed by the least experienced and least prepared teachers. The chapters in this volume examine how pre-service teachers are taught to understand the social contexts of education. Drawing on the individual expertise of the authors, the topics covered include unpacking poverty for pre-service teachers, issues related to urban schooling as well as remote and regional area schooling.

Putting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into effect will become a major task for the 21st century, particularly for future teachers who are expected to participate in ESD but whose studies often do not prepare them for this task. This article responds to the question how collaboration in teacher education can help bridge that gap and how it can contribute to the transdisciplinary demands of ESD. It assumes an essential role in enabling collaborative spaces of dialogue and transfer of knowledge between educators and students of all academic disciplines, schools, universities, local stakeholders, and CSO. This specifically includes perspectives from the Global South.
Presenting the certificate program "el mundo – ESD in university level teacher education" (LMU Munich) as an example for collaborative ESD practice, the article identifies and presents four central fields of transdisciplinary collaboration in teacher education: content– related, institutional, and biography–affecting collaboration, as well as collaboration in pedagogical–didactic contexts.

The global need for teacher education is greater now in the early 21st century than ever before. According to UNESCO, half of the world's 195 countries will have to expand their stock of teachers significantly – some by tens of thousands – if the goal of universal primary education as articulated in the Dakar Framework for Action in 2000 is to be met by 2015. Socioeconomic inequities, political instability, demographic changes and crises such as the HIV/AIDs epidemic have engendered huge shortfalls in teacher supply and low teacher quality in many developing countries. It is now clear that "bricks and mortar" approaches to expanding teacher education may not be adequate if the current and projected shortfalls in teacher supply and low teacher quality are to be properly addressed. Today, however, both research and practice are showing the tremendous opportunities in large-scale education provision offered by open and distance learning (ODL). Capitalising on the strengths afforded by innovative information and communication technologies and media, ODL broadens and streamlines access to teacher education in a way that traditional delivery modes cannot. At the same time, adopting ODL requires new thinking about learning and teaching strategies, applications, costs and other practicalities. The contributors to the 13 chapters in this book are nationally and internationally renowned scholars in teacher education, ODL or both. // Series formerly called "Perspectives on Teacher Education." Renamed to "Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning."

Policymaking in American foreign language education is affected by a variety of factors, among them the increasing influence of outside forces such as politicians and business leaders, poor communication between high-level policymakers and practitioners, the paradox of national curricular and standardization efforts and local and state restructuring movements, and the diversity of policies governing teacher education. In view of projected teacher shortages, recruitment efforts need to be expanded and alternate routes to traditional teacher certification need to be explored. The wide diversity in subject-matter and pedagogical courses and experiences required for teacher certification across the fifty states is a matter of grave concern. The efforts of language organizations to create generic teacher education guidelines and language proficiency standards will be instrumental in providing needed leadership and guidance to reform efforts in foreign language instruction. Unfortunately, these reform efforts are being undertaken without the extensive policy and planning discussions needed to ensure that reform responds to future needs rather than to the status quo.

England presents an interesting and complex situation with regards to teacher education and democratic citizenship in relation to other European contexts. These challenges can be encapsulated in the debate over national identity in the midst of Brexit. This chapter will explore how and if fundamental British values accord with the Council of Europe's conceptual model of 20 competences for citizenship and democracy. Discussion of how and whether teacher education in England is able to encourage trainers and trainees to explore identity within the context of Brexit will also be explored. Teacher education in England has become increasingly fragmented and complex in recent years. The government's drive towards more school-centred teacher education and the removal of state schools from local authority control has left a situation where trainees can opt for a range of 'pathways' into school and college teaching. The debate here is whether investigation of citizenship, democracy and identity is in danger of being further marginalised by the pressure to get trainees 'classroom ready'. This chapter will adopt a philosophical approach to the literature, focussing on some key texts in the field to draw out implications for the main concepts and how they are interpreted.

High quality teachers make a difference. Marzano notes, "the single most influential component of an effective school is the individual teachers within that school" (2007, p. 1). There are a multitude of considerations that impact the effectiveness of an individual teacher, but arguably the quality of a teacher's educational training program is of paramount importance. The initial theory and practical training that pre-service teachers receive not only prepare educators to enter the classroom but can have a profound impact on their later growth and development as a professional. However, despite the impact that pre-service teacher training may have on developing effective teachers, what constitutes a quality teacher education program is not commonly agreed upon. As Linda Darling-Hammond (2000) comments, "Education schools have been variously criticized as ineffective in preparing teachers for their work, unresponsive to new demands, remote from practice, and barriers to the recruitment of bright college students into teaching" (p. 166). Educational programs can be considered fragmented, with various aspects of the content, pedagogical coursework and field experienced viewed as disconnected, with a divide existing between university and school based training (DarlingHammond, 2000). The research objectives of this paper are to examine: (1) the pre-service education model developed at one Alberta, Canada university, an undergraduate program that strives to achieve program coherence between the teaching skills required by provincial legislation, course content and field experiences; (2) the government standards for beginning teachers, (3) student personal responses of their sense of readiness compared to the government standards (comparing the education program to government requirements), and (4) potential use of a reflective tool shared in further forging program coherence. The results show a clear-headed view of the students' own "sense of preparedness." They can distinctly see where they have strengths and where they have areas that they intend to work on.

Even as a series of concepts of knowledge – knowledge production, knowledge as a commodity, useful knowledge, and knowledge economy – have been taken up by the political discourse, knowledge has come to be regarded a commodity, a product which can be tested and measured, and used as a means to enhance a nation's competitiveness. This view of knowledge continues to exert an increasing influence on higher education, higher music education, and the education of music teachers around the globe. Despite this marketisation of higher education, the fact that academics have raised their voices against it, and the knowledge that people acquire via or in music being regarded as insignificant in terms of the national economy, the philosophy of knowledge has attracted only little attention within the philosophy of music education. This is particularly true of the question of what should be regarded as the central forms of knowledge in music teacher education. Among the themes in need of closer discussion are the relationship between knowledge priorities within music education and concepts of information and knowledge; the Aristotelian concepts of episteme, techne, and phronesis; and tacit knowledge. In turn, these knowledge forms and their role in music teacher education need to be considered relative to the knowledge values of a test and measurability based knowledge regime. What kind of framework for the knowledge priorities of music teacher education is entailed by such a regime? ; Professional Knowledge in Music Teacher Education

Finland is considered to be among the most democratic countries in the world according to various international surveys. However, the level of student participation in Finnish schools is below average compared to other European Union countries even though national curricula for comprehensive education have been emphasising values of democracy since the1970s. In this chapter, we analyse how Finnish teacher education contributes to the development of education for democracy. We do this by analysing how education for democracy has been developed in teacher education in Finland, and what kind of ideals form the foundation for education for democracy in Finnish teacher education. The findings are analysed in relation to the Competences for Democratic Culture produced by the Council of Europe. ; peerReviewed