About this Event
This event will be held on Tuesday 21st May from 09.00-10.30 and is jointly organised by Teacher Education and Partnerships, and the Teacher Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy Research Hub. The event is open to anyone who is interested.
Abstract
Teachers are regarded as key players in the enactment of accountability systems at the local level, at times being forced to vindicate their professional status and judgement which ultimately affects their professional identity and their perception of self-efficacy as education professionals. Teacher identity provides a framework for teachers to construct their own ideas of how to be, how to act and how to understand their work and their place in society. Teachers identify a gap between pedagogical vision and practice, thus calling for teaching that needs to be made financially and intellectually more attractive, hence providing better opportunities to prepare for tomorrow’s world. Besides being lifelong learners, teachers are also regarded as valued professionals, with the notion of professional teachers thus evolving to address the challenges emerging in twenty-first century education.
Are these needs being met by teacher education? And how is the concept of teacher education being understood by policy makers, teacher education providers, and the teachers themselves? In most OECD countries, most of the resources and the debate have focused on initial teacher education. However, this is far from being the case. Teacher education is a lifelong and life-wide experience that goes from their initial education to their retirement. Teacher education is a continuum of teacher learning that is set off from the beginning of the teachers’ own schooling and continues throughout their entire teaching career. Are there links between the ITE practicum, mentoring in the induction stage, and continuing professional development, for the teacher to be and to become? Are questions around teacher education questions of training, of learning, or of policy?
I thus seek to problematize how the concept of teacher education is being understood by policy makers, teacher education providers, and the teachers themselves. Teaching and teacher education are a deeply contested field within education and within different national contexts, with research on teacher education still a ‘messy’ and somewhat young research field.
About the Presenter
Dr Denise Mifsud is Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, Management and Governance in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK. She has many years of practitioner experience in education settings in both teaching and top-level leadership roles within the Ministry for Education, Malta, in addition to higher education experience in Malta, Scotland and England She has published in several international top-rated journals, in addition to monographs and edited volumes, as well as won awards by the AERA, EERA and SERA.
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Charteris Land, The University of Edinburgh, Charteris Land, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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