The marketization of teacher education: threat or opportunity?

Title: The marketization of teacher education: threat or opportunity?
Creator: Whitty, Geoff
Relation: A Companion to Research in Teacher Education p. 373-383
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4075-7_25
Publisher: Springer
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2017
Description: Teacher education has been subject to many reform efforts over the past half-century, usually focusing on recruiting better qualified students onto teacher training courses, increasing the length of those courses and enhancing their academic rigour. This has often involved greater standardization and regulation of provision. Recently, England has pioneered a rather different approach, involving deregulation and marketization of the system. This has led to the opening up of a variety of new routes into teaching. This chapter explores how far this trend has gone, what it has entailed and the extent to which it is being taken up in other jurisdictions. It suggests that there may be some positive aspects to this development, but argues that there is an urgent need for more research into the impact and implications of having multiple routes into the teaching profession.
Subject: teacher education; high education institution; teacher training; teacher education programme; teacher preparation
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1399536
Identifier: uon:34628
Identifier: ISBN:9789811040733
Language: eng

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