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Direct linkHumfrey, Christine – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
Internationalisation is a key element in the evolving role and function of the UK higher education (HE) sector. Its perceived benefits are promoted widely and sought assiduously. It has come to be believed by many practitioners that internationalisation and the quest for quality and status in HE are synonymous. In the current phase of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Global Approach
Earley, Penelope M. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
Teacher education in the USA lives in a policy shadow world that is jumbled and unfocused because decision-makers do not see teacher education as a public good in and of itself. Rather, it is viewed as an instrument to achieve other, more important, policy goals. Consequently, teacher education policy tends to be parsed across fields and levels of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Decision Making, Higher Education
Ian Menter; Moira Hulme – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
This paper examines the extent to which political devolution has influenced the nature of education policy-making in Scotland, taking initial teacher education and early professional development as a case. Pre-devolution studies of the policy community in Scotland stressed the close relationships between the various stakeholders and the inherent…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Furlong, John; McNamara, Olwen; Campbell, Anne; Howson, John; Lewis, Sarah – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
Over the last 15 years, initial teacher education in England has been established as a national system, closely controlled by the government. One of the consequences of this move is that teacher education is now intimately bound up with changing national politics and policy priorities which reach down into the finest of detail of provision. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education, Educational Policy
Brennan, Marie; Willis, Sue – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
Teacher education in Australia is subject to a great deal of policy interest at both Federal and State levels; it is also part of education policy shifts for the whole university sector. This paper explores Australian teacher education policy in terms of its governance, focusing on three current "sites of contestation": university…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Budgets
Achinstein, Betty – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
New teachers are unprepared for school politics and the conflicts they experience with administrators, colleagues and policies. Research and practice on mentoring often ignore organizational contexts. This article explores these under-examined contexts, asking: (1) What do mentors need to know and be able to do in relation to school and district…
Descriptors: Mentors, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Politics of Education
