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Contradictions and Tensions in the Place of Teachers in Educational Reform: Reflections on Teacher Preparation in the USA and Namibia
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Zeichner, Ken; Ndimande, Bekisizwe – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
This paper examines recent education and teacher education reforms in the USA and Namibia and analyzes two tensions that have been a central part of debates about teacher quality and teacher education in many parts of the world: whether we should prepare teachers as technicians or as reflective practitioners; and whether we should prepare teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, National Standards, Teacher Education
Action Research and the Transfer of Reflective Approaches to In-Service Education and Training (INSET) for Unqualified and Underqualified Teachers in Namibia.
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O'Sullivan, Margo C. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2002
Explored efforts, within an action research study of a 3- year Inservice Education and Training (INSET) program, to implement reflective approaches in training unqualified and underqualified elementary teachers in Namibia. Results found that western approaches to teacher reflection could not be used productively with Namibian teachers unless there…
Descriptors: Action Research, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Elementary Education