Quality: Keywords in Teacher Education

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Dr Clare Brooks (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK) VIV Ellis (Monash University Australia)

Quality

Keywords in Teacher Education

Dr Clare Brooks (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK), VIV Ellis (Monash University Australia)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
10 August 2023

Teacher training

Series: Keywords in Teacher Education

Discussions of quality dominate the field of teacher education. However, definitions of quality can vary enormously and are often vague and imprecise, relying on proxies for quality which make inaccurate assumptions about what matters in the education of teachers.

This book explores different ways in which quality can be defined and understood within teacher education, offering a way of categorizing and understanding why some quality indicators miss the mark.

The book introduces the idea of a quality conundrum, with illustrative examples from international ITE practice, to show how different conceptions of quality in ITE can have good intentions but be potentially damaging to its overall transformative potential. It also provides examples of where practice has been able to move beyond restrictive definitions of quality to enact a more transformative vision of teacher education. This analysis ties the use of quality indicators to historical developments in teacher education and political shifts in how it is viewed, the role education is perceived to play in society, and considers where the power lies in locating who decides what counts as quality in teacher education (and also who and what gets excluded). Key topics covered include:

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the use of standards, accreditation and inspection frameworks;

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the range of input, process, output and perspectival indicators used to judge quality in ITE;

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the different discourses of teacher quality which influence the pedagogy and structure of teacher education programmes. The author also gives particular attention to how to address different approaches to quality when they start to reach conundrum proportions, and how to redress teacher education towards what matters rather than what counts.

By: Dr Clare Brooks (IOE UCL's Faculty of Education and Society University College London UK)
Edited by: VIV Ellis (Monash University Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350285965
ISBN 10: 135028596X
Series: Keywords in Teacher Education
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 10 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Quality Conundrums 2. Teacher Standards and Accountability Frameworks 3. Quality Indicators 4. Discourses of Quality 5. Navigating the Quality Landscape References Index

Clare Brooks is Professor of Education and Pro-Director for Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

Reviews for Quality: Keywords in Teacher Education

Dr. Brooks' highly readable presentation of current scholarship maps out distinctions and implications of the essentially contested notion of quality in teacher education. The text offers teacher educators, regulators, and policy-makers a conceptual rigour by which to appraise dimensions of their program and institutional practice with greater clarity and precision - and deftly argues for agentive, adaptive teacher educational leadership * David Montemurro, Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada * Everyone agrees on the importance of quality teaching. The word quality itself though is slippery and contested. In this engaging and comprehensive text Clare Brooks teases out the various ways the keyword quality is used to mean different things to different stakeholders, providing theory, models and examples of quality teaching in practice. This book should really be read by all teacher educators. * Jo Lampert, Professor of Teacher Education for Social Transformation, La Trobe University, Australia *