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Tang, Sylvia Y. F.; Wong, Angel K. Y.; Li, Dora D.Y.; Cheng, May M. H. – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2019
The theory-practice debate has been a perennial issue in initial teacher education (ITE). By reporting a mixed-methods study in an ITE programme characterized by a university-based 'theory-first' approach in Hong Kong, this study offers useful empirical evidence to analyse the theory-practice issue. 346 student teachers of a BEd Programme…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Mohamed, Zulaikha; Valcke, Martin; De Wever, Bram – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2017
This is the first report in a series of studies concerning student teachers' readiness-for-the-job, defined by a framework of 11 international teacher competences (ITCs). Attaining readiness-for-the-job is connected to four characteristics of teacher education, namely; (1) employing the ITCs in day-to-day teaching in initial teacher education, (2)…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Teacher Educators, Teacher Competencies, Career Readiness
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Lambe, Jackie; McNair, Victor; Smith, Ron – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2013
This article reports on the use of e-portfolios to assess aspects of a one year, post-graduate pre-service teacher education programme in Northern Ireland within the specific context of special needs education. The rationale for using an e-portfolio for programme assessment and the potential it offers in demonstrating a range of teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Special Education, Electronic Publishing
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Lillvist, Anne; Sandberg, Anette; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2014
This paper examines contemporary issues in early childhood teacher education in Sweden. The aim of the study was to explore dimensions of the construct of preschool teachers' competence as reported by 810 students enrolled in early childhood teacher education at 15 Swedish universities. The results showed that students' definitions of preschool…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Competencies
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Haugalokken, Ove Kr.; Ramberg, Per – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2007
The introduction of the collaborative partnership model in initial teacher education at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology has paved the way for activities and components in its professional training that closely relate to the field of practice and meets the need to attain the more "here-and-now"-oriented objectives of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Training, Preservice Teacher Education
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Robinson, Muriel – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2005
Whatever happens in 2020, schools and teachers will be very different. The teachers in training now, and those currently teaching, need to be prepared to be flexible, to manage change, and more than that, to be agents of change. Those 18-year-olds currently entering training began school in 1991; they are truly National Curriculum babies and, the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Agents, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teacher Education