Changing teacher educational contexts: global discourses in teacher education and its effect on teacher education in national contexts

Douglas-Gardner, Janet and Callender, Christine (2022) Changing teacher educational contexts: global discourses in teacher education and its effect on teacher education in national contexts. Power and Education, 15 (1). pp. 66-84. ISSN 1757-7438

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Teacher education has gathered interest globally and nationally among teachers, educators, researchers and policy makers. Madalinska-Michalak, O ’Doherty and Assuno Flores (2018) observe that regional/ national, social, economic, political and historical factors impact upon teacher education and ‘it is also impacted by global problems and tendencies’ (pp. 567). This paper builds on these debates and examines the effects of global discourses of teacher education in the national contexts of developed and developing countries, for example, Guyana, Japan, South Africa, United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK). This includes consideration of teacher education and training before and during the current global Covid-19 pandemic ( UNESCO, 2020 ). The paper concludes that teacher education continues to be under scrutiny due to global and national expectations, the demand of and how they are positioned in preparing teachers for the 21st century. Notwithstanding, as globalisation becomes more integrated in societies globally teacher education curricula not only has to retain its emphasis on standards, but equally its agility to ensure that the needs of all learners are met.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Douglas-Gardner, Janet and Callender, Christine (2022) Changing teacher educational contexts: global discourses in teacher education and its effect on teacher education in national context. Power and Education, 15 (1). pp. 66-84. Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). DOI: 10.1177/17577438221124744.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	teacher education; global discourses; national contexts; developed countries; developing countries; Guyana, Japan; South Africa; United States of America (USA); United Kingdom (UK)
Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 370 Education
Department:	School of Social Sciences and Professions
SWORD Depositor:	Pub Router
Depositing User:	Pub Router
Date Deposited:	11 Nov 2022 13:14
Last Modified:	01 Mar 2023 16:34
URI:	https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/id/eprint/8020

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