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What should teacher education be about? Initial comparisons from Scotland and Alberta

Adams, Paul, Burns, Amy·2023·Teaching Education
DOI 10.1080/10476210.2023.2166918
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This article empirically examines the ways in which Initial Teacher Education in Scotland and Alberta, Canada, seeks to ‘get students in’, ‘get them out and into the workforce’, ‘get on with teaching future teachers’ and how it should ‘get on with students’. Using Adams’ (2016) policy heuristic, which posits that policy can be discerned in three realms: frame; explanation; and formation, this paper considers the middle realm: that of policy explanation. Here, attempts to position policy through public pronouncement, policy directive, mandate and/or missive are examined in the context of ITE in Scotland and Alberta. By analysing policy explanations, the paper marks out how both jurisdictions should begin to attempt to craft ITE located in career-long, professional learning and development that understands and acknowledges tensions between ITE and later teacher-education phases. Finally, the paper makes a tentative proposal as to what such ITE might hope to achieve and how it might contribute to a well-developed workforce, so that both locations and other jurisdictions might orient initial teacher development.

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  1. 10.1080/02607476.2021.190941 · DOI
  2. General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS). (2012b). The student teacher code. Retrieved from www.gtcs.org.uk
  3. General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS). (2017). The general teaching council for Scotland fitness to teach and appeals rules 2012. GTCS.
  4. General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS). (2019). Memorandum on entry requirements to programmes of initial teacher education in Scotland. GTCS.
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Authors
Adams, P., & Burns, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Strathclyde (GB)
  • University of Calgary (CA)
Corresponding author
Adams, Paul
ORCID
Venue
Teaching Education
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2023-01-20
Volume
34
Issue
4
Pages
403-419
ISSN
  • 1047-6210 (ISSN-L)
  • 1470-1286
DOI
10.1080/10476210.2023.2166918
OpenAlex
W4317569411
Cited by
2
References
28
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 1
FWCI
1.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Teaching Education (publishedVersion)
  • Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Government of Alberta
  • Ministry of Advanced Education
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › Education Pedagogy and Practices
  • Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Assessments
Keywords
initial teacher education, teacher education policy, policy explanation, Scotland, Alberta, teacher workforce development

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Adams, P., & Burns, A. (2023). What should teacher education be about? Initial comparisons from Scotland and Alberta. Teaching Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10476210.2023.2166918