Teacher Education in Crisis

An excellent analysis of the policy construction and rhetorical ‘crisis’ which has been used to justify the government’s ‘Market Review’ and subsequent re-accreditation process. It shows how evidence of the high quality of English ITE was ignored, so that an ideological, un-tested experiment could be imposed, complete with new ‘world-leading’ providers who have never trained a teacher, and a narrow technicist franchised curriculum. Most alarming is the outline of the limited and interconnected group of influential policy entrepreneurs who suggest, are consulted on, and then benefit from these policy changes. -- Edward Podesta, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Leeds Trinity University, UK A hard hitting and honest account of the impact of policy change in teacher education told through the voices of teacher educators who have had to navigate the crisis! -- Karan Vickers-Hulse, Associate Head of Department for ITE, University of the West of England Bristol, UK This book lifts the lid on the recent reforms of teacher education. Although it lambasts the myopic and ideological power grab by recent governments over the education of teachers, it also provides an outstanding synthesis of the causes and effects of this disaster and some small hope for the future. -- David Leat, Professor of Curriculum Innovation, Newcastle University, UK This authoritative collection of accounts written by a range of key stakeholders helpfully illuminates, with a depressing degree of accuracy, the havoc wreaked by successive policy makers over the past decade on the once successful system for providing pre-service teacher education in England. -- Janet Orchard, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion in Teacher Education, University of Bristol, UK