Session Information
10 SES 10 E, Transitions in Teacher Education: Impact from National and International Policies (Part 1)
Symposium to be continued in 10 SES 11 E
Contribution
When it comes to national teacher education reform the debate is marked by the pervasive assumptions that improved school education via improved student learning will solve the problems of today’s societies. When looking into the reform work one can see that current reform solutions are based on the implementation of solutions building on quasi-evidence by comparisons (Werler 2010) or by an ignorance or non-recognition of the educational practice (Jobst 2013). At the same time principles like “externalization” of national reforms (e.g. Schriewer 1990) as well as “political bilingualism“ (e.g. Steiner-Khamsi 2009) become apparent. In the context of this complex and contradictory development we focus in our paper on implementation policy and effects of teacher education reform both in Germany and Norway. In a comparative perspective we discuss questions relevant to the three dimensions of the political field: policy, politics and polity: • What «content» has been implemented to solve which problem? • What can be said about the integration of this policy into the national structure and culture? • How this policy came into existence (e.g. participation, transparency)? By discussing these aspects the paper will provide deeper insight into the relation between the national and the global or international political field of teacher education.
References
Jobst, S. (2013). Globale Entwicklung in Bildungspolitik und Bildungspraxis: Theoretische und empirische Betrachtungen. In Enzyklopädie Erziehungswissenschaft Online. Schriewer, J. (1990). The method of comparison and the need for externalization: Methodological criteria and sociological concepts. In J. Schriewer (Ed.) (pp. 25-83) Theories and methods in comparative education. Frankfurt/M: Lang. Steiner-Khamsi, G. (2009). Knowledge-based regulation and the politics of international comparison. Nordisk Pedagogik. 29(1), 61–71. Werler, T. (2010). A thorn in the side: Does educational evidence come from comparative research? 24th Conference of Comparative Education Society In Europe (CESE), unpublished paper.
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