Asian Perspectives on Teacher Education

ISBN-13: 9780415560375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 192 str.

Shin'ichi Suzuki;Edward R. Howe

Opis

Research into teacher education is dominated by Anglophone literature, with the inevitable result that teacher education in non-English speaking regions of the world largely remains unexamined. This book fills the gap in the existing literature and comprises twelve invited contributions from an international panel of educationists. To provide the reader with a clear structure, the book offers a detailed introduction and afterword which brings together the various themes examined in each chapter. The contribututions offer perspectives on teacher education in the Asian region, perspectives which, until now, have been missing from contemporary debate on teacher education. Presenting research from Australia, Japan, the USA, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and Vietnam, this book examines the varied situations teacher educators experience in their own countries; in so doing the researchers identify resonances and dissonances in comparison the dominant Anglophone research literature on the same subjects. This book is an important contribution to the comparative study of teacher education in the first decade of the twenty-first century, giving a voice to an important sector of the international community of teacher educators.

This book was published as a special issue of Journal of Education for Teaching: International research and pedagogy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Teachers’ Role in the Transition and Transmission of Culture  3. Alternate routes in initial teacher education: a critical review of the research and policy implications for Hong Kong  4. Teacher Education in a global context: Towards a Defensible Theory of Teacher Education  5. Educators in American Online Universities: Understanding the Corporate Influence on Higher Education  6. Developing a "Feedback Cycle" in Teacher Training: Local Networking in English Education at Keiwa College  7. Gender inequality among Japanese high school teachers: Women teachers’ resistance to gender bias in occupational culture  8. Teacher Induction Across The Pacific: A Comparative Study Of Canada And Japan  9. Reform of Teacher Education in China  10. Early Childhood Teacher Education in China  11. English Education and Teacher Education in South Korea  12. Development of Primary English Education and Teacher Training in Korea  13. Educational Reform and Teacher Education in Vietnam  14. Afterword

O autorze

Shin'ichi Suzuki is Professor Emeritus, Waseda University, Japan. Edward R. Howe Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Utsunomiya University in Tochigi, Japan.