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10 SES 14 A, Innovation And Reform In Teacher Education: Historical perspectives on change and transformation
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In this paper, we draw on our research into the history of the Oxford Internship Scheme, a research-informed Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme developed and implemented by a partnership between Oxford University (England), the local education authority in Oxfordshire and local schools, to offer an analysis of its development as an instance of innovation and collective creativity in ITE over the period 1973 to 1987. In making this analysis, we draw on two main data sets: first, long recorded interviews and unrecorded conversations with key protagonists from that period; second, an archive of documents collected by some of these key protagonists covering most if not all aspects of the scheme’s development. Through the analysis of how this programme of ITE emerged over a 14-year period, we show how such an innovation may be seen as a collectively creative response to a ground up feeling of a need to change amongst its principal actors. We also explore the importance of this ‘felt need to change’ in order for innovation to occur. The paper concludes by considering implications for change in teacher education particularly in the current policy context in England that has seen the government taking more control from the centre, specifying standards and re-organising teacher education particularly by creating and promoting more school-led ITE. We conclude by considering how a ‘felt need to change’, and subsequently innovation in ITE, could emerge in the current English policy context.
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00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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