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Teaching the World's Teachers

Name: Teaching the World's Teachers
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421438290
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Edited by Lauren Lefty, James W. Fraser
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: September 13, 2020
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 336

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Many countries confront surprisingly similar challenges in preparing KGÇô12 educators for success, while national contexts also make for surprising differences. In Teaching the World's Teachers, education historians Lauren Lefty and James W. Fraser and their contributors make a convincing case for approaching these shared challenges from a more global and historically minded perspective.

Written by education scholars from eleven different countries'Argentina, Brazil, Catalonia-Spain, China, England, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States'this book provides histories of teacher education reforms between roughly 1980 and 2020. The authors show how international trends that emerged during this period collided with national and regional contexts to produce unique teacher education systems in different nations. While in some countries the embrace of markets and competition led to a deregulation of the teacher preparation field, in others teaching became a highly regulated and centralized affair. At the same time, ideas and structural models cross borders and education leaders borrow from each other while reshaping plans in each place.

Opening with a broad historical overview of global teacher education models beginning in the late eighteenth century, Teaching the World's Teachers argues that the field has long been characterized by cross-border connections'but shaped by geopolitical hierarchies of power. In an era when teacher quality is widely recognized as one of the most important factors in a child's education, this volume encourages dialogue among teacher educators and policymakers around the world. By understanding the context and contingency of where we have been, the authors hope that readers will walk away with a more empowered sense of where we are headed in the all-important task of teaching the world's teachers.

Contributors: Kwame Akyeampong, Richard Andrews, Azeem Badroodien, Maria In+¬s G. F. Marcondes de Souza, Gustavo E. Fischman, James W. Fraser, Guangwei Hu, Arie Kizel, Jari Lavonen, Lauren Lefty, Wei Liao, Jason Loh, Silvana Mesquita, Hannele Niemi, Lily Orland-Barak, Paula Razquin, Carol Anne Spreen, Eduard Vallory, Yisu Zhou

Preface: Why Look at Teacher Preparation Globally?, by Lauren Lefty and James W. FraserIntroduction: Teaching the World's Teachers: A Long History, by Lauren Lefty1. Continuities and Transformations of Argentina's Teacher Education: Policies and Reforms since the Mid-Eighties, by Gustavo Fischman and Paula Razquin2. Teacher Formation in Brazil: a comparison between the ""old"" and ""new"" approaches to the formation of teachers in light of the challenges facing the teaching profession today, by Maria Ines G.F. Marcondes de Souza and Silvana Mesquita3. Preparing Teachers For the Schools We Have or For the Schools We Want? Challenges and Changes in Catalonia (Spain), by Eduard Vallory4. Teacher Education Reform and National Development in China (1978-2017): Four Metaphors, by Wei Liao and Yisu Zhou5. Crisis and opportunity in teacher preparation in England, by Richard Andrews6. Teacher Education in Finland: Persistent Efforts for High-Quality Teachers, by Hannele Niemi and Jari Lavonen7. Transforming Teacher Preparation and Development in Ghana: Progress and Prospects, by Kwame Akyeampong8. From Traditional to Dialogical-Reflective Teacher Training: The case of Teacher Education in Israel, by Arie Kizel and Lily Orland-Barak9. Teacher Education for a Knowledge-Based Economy: The Singaporean Case, by Jason Loh and Guangwei Hu10. Reforming South Africa's Teaching: The difficult dilemmas of teacher education policy reform post-1994, by Azeem Badroodien and Carol Anne SpreenA Concluding Word, by James W. Fraser and Lauren Lefty

Teaching the World's Teachers is well written, well researched, andwell edited.Philip G. Altbach, author of Global Perspectives onHigher Education

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