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This article is an attempt to answer some of the criticisms of the notion of reflective practice in teacher education. It is argued that in a democratic society personal autonomy is an important ideal of education, including teacher education, and that therefore the notion of reflective practice should have a central place. The relationship between autonomy and the reflective self is clarified with reference to different models of the self. In the light of this, the purpose of teacher education for autonomy is defined in terms of the nature of the committed as well as the reflective aspects of the self. The argument is further illustrated and elaborated by examining Schb'n's attempt to reintellec‐tualize professional practice through an analysis of the reflective practitioner as artist. In addition to facilitating self‐analysis and reflection, teacher education should raise awareness of the need to produce and reproduce the milieu of democratic reform. In conclusion, the role of the disciplines is reviewed as a resource for pursuing the goal of autonomy in teacher education.  相似文献   

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Despite a wealth of research pointing to the benefits of empowerment, teachers still remain encapsulated in their classrooms (Rice 1987). They have been unable to take their place as first-class citizens within the education profession. It is encouraging to note the various programs and plans that are being tried across the country. It is also encouraging to read so much in the literature about teacher empowerment, school-centered decision making, and the restructuring of schools. Empowerment, it is to be hoped, will not be looked on as merely “another fad.”

It is crucial that programs supporting teacher empowerment expand and that the “reform states” reduce the restrictions placed on teacher autonomy. If legislators continue to insist on making the crucial educational decisions, then they ought to accept the fact that schools are unlikely to improve.  相似文献   

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This study examined and compared school autonomy in China and the United States. Based on the international PISA 2012 school data, the authors examined three aspects of school autonomy. We found that in comparison with the United States, (1) principals from China were less likely to have responsibility over eleven school decisions (hiring teachers, firing teachers, salary increase, budget formulation, budget allocation, disciplinary policies, assessment policies, student admittance, textbook selection, course content, and courses offered) and were similar in having responsibility over teacher start salaries, and (2) teachers from China were less likely to have responsibility over six school decisions (hiring teachers, budget formulation, disciplinary policies, textbook selection, course content, and courses offered), were more likely to have responsibility over two decisions (firing teachers, student admittance), and were similar in having responsibility over four decisions (teacher start salaries, salary increase, budget allocation, and assessment policies). We also found that schools in China had (1) lower responsibility for curriculum/assessment and lower responsibility for resource allocation and (2) a lower level of teacher participation/autonomy. The findings have implications for educational policy in China and the United States.  相似文献   

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To examine different approaches to teacher autonomy in nation-states, three countries were selected for a comparative study: Estonia, Finland and Germany. The emphasis of the study lies on the subjective perceptions of upper secondary school teachers (n = 33 semi-structured interviews) regarding their curricular autonomy and experiences of being controlled by the system. The article discusses different concepts of teacher autonomy and agency theoretically and concludes that they are partly overlapping, but not the same. Agency can be understood as the realistic actualization of autonomy within the constraints of the teaching profession, while autonomy is, in theory, more liberating, focusing on self-directedness, capacity for autonomous action and freedom from control. The data analysis showed that the expectations of teachers as to the amount of desired autonomy varied greatly. While the Finnish teachers in the study perceived control over teachers’ work to be unnecessary, due to their high professionalism, the Estonian and German teachers did not advocate absence of control, instead preferring to ‘have complete freedom to choose within limits.’  相似文献   

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Trends in the status of teacher education can be examined through proposals for alternative models of course structure and delivery and the implications of these for teacher trainers and teachers. This paper implies that there exists a political will to move responsibility for teacher training from Colleges of Education and Universities to ‘training’ schools. It indicates that, while the introduction of a market led education service suggests greater autonomy for teachers and schools, the reality is that through strengthening the role of bureaucracy in education, the Government retains strong central control over the whole service.  相似文献   

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This article presents a socio-historical analysis of teacher education in Britain, tracing the changing agents and nature of control of, and consequent levels of freedom in, the enterprise from its inception to the present day. It illustrates the evolution from church, through university to state control and the limited role of the teaching and teacher education professions in each. In doing so it identifies teacher education as a disputed territory of conflicting tendencies, which currently faces unprecedented and draconian central government control and identifies the major factors related to change. It further traces how in the period since the second world war the main source of control has shifted from institution to state, and the main object of control from the student, to teacher educators, to the content and nature of teacher preparation, to the present where all these are centrally controlled, in a fashion not only foreign to British education history but also its culture.  相似文献   

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Teachers’ autonomy contributes to their development and retention decisions. While proficient teachers would benefit from more autonomy, developing teachers often require more structure and guidance. This article reviews the literature surrounding autonomy and proposes an argument for a Graduated Teacher Autonomy framework: a theoretical tool matching teacher proficiency to autonomy. This dynamic framework has the potential to support the needs of all teachers and could improve teacher satisfaction, retention, development, and administrator–teacher relations.  相似文献   

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Universities in England and Wales have played a substantial role in teacher education for nearly a hundred years. Throughout this period their involvement in teacher education has been seen as a threat to the universities’ claims to status and autonomy. As a result the universities have regarded teacher education with ambivalence, an ambivalence which can be traced from the report of the Cross Commission in 1888 to the setting up of the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education in 1984.  相似文献   

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This self-study frames the influences of cooperating (or mentor) teachers on teacher candidates in my teacher education classroom as an action-at-a-distance on my pedagogy of teacher education; that is, a tacit set of influences and expectations that teacher candidates develop about my course before it even begins. Interviews with teacher candidates enabled me to develop two conceptual metaphors to think about the relationships candidates develop with cooperating teachers on practicum. The first, freedom with foundation, reflects the fact that teacher candidates hope to have considerable autonomy in their practicum placements while simultaneously having the support from their cooperating teacher to receive meaningful, regular, feedback. The second, power and performance, names the tensions teacher candidates feel in experiencing the practicum as a site of performance rather than as a site of learning. I offer some specific pedagogical ways in which I have responded to these issues before making a turn to self. I examined journal entries from my own experiences as a teacher candidate 20 years ago with a view to understanding the ways in which the two metaphors may have played a role in my own development as a teacher. This research compels me to attend explicitly to action-at-at-distance forces in my teacher education classroom, such as candidates’ relationship with cooperating teachers and my relationships with my former cooperating teachers.  相似文献   

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个体与组织:教师自主性的二重维度   总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5  
教师自主性是教师个体人格特征与专业社会化程度的综合表征,它不仅反映了教师个体之间的行为、态度、性情等方面独立性、主动性差异,还是国家教育改革的宏观政策与学校微观政治的具体体现,表现为外部组织环境所规定的教师专业独立活动的范围与可能空间。个体维度的教师自主性提升强调内部的自我完善与发展,组织维度的教师自主性发展强调外部的政策杠杆与赋权。二者是相同事物属性的不同观察维度,是事物互相约定的不同侧面,其表现出的不断变化、不断生长的动态特征,是互为因果的双边调整的结果。客观外部结构是教师自主发展的条件,主体内部结构特征是教师专业成长的基本依据,主客结构的交互作用促成教师自主性内外特征的变化。  相似文献   

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作为一种教师成长途径,融合教育教师赋权增能既能丰富教师赋权增能理论,又能满足教师职业生涯发展的需要,并能整体提升教师社会地位,对于促进融合教育教师专业化发展具有十分重要的意义。当前我国融合教育教师的赋权增能面临制度保障缺失、教育回流现象出现、支持策略单一、实证研究不足等理论与实践上的诸多困难。因此,在融合教育教师专业化发展策略上,需要进一步完善融合教育教师的职前教师教育过程;同时采取促进融合教育教师赋权增能提升策略。  相似文献   

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自主学习是现代教育的显著特征,自主学习意味着"学习者承担起学习的责任"。师生协商制定教学目标、设计教学活动、完成考核评价是外语自主学习协商式教学模式的核心。"协商"使"教师赋权于学生",从而真正地实现了"学习者自主"。协商式教学模式体现了一种灵活、动态、开放的外语教学思想,师生在平等协商对话中实现了课程的创生以及师生的共同成长。  相似文献   

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This article studies the dilemma between professionalization and professionalism in the development of teaching into a bureaucratic organization in Hong Kong. Professionalization and bureucractization are simultaneous processes. Teaching as an occupation has grown from a state of idiosyncrasy to a profession with defined boundaries. However, achieving system efficiency and technical rationality, both features of bureaucracy, could undermine or suppress teachers’ individual autonomy. Thus, bureaucratization supports professionalization by raising the status of teaching, but undermines professionalism by constraining teachers’ autonomy. The article examines the changing pattern of stratification and how it shaped the relationship between the professionalization, bureaucratization and professionalism of teaching in Hong Kong. It argues that teaching cannot be a true profession without realizing professionalism, and that teacher education has a central role in the drive towards it. Key Words: Hong Kong teachers, teacher education, professionalization, professionalism, stratification  相似文献   

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This article examines the relationship between primary teachers' professional autonomy and the increasing managerial control over teachers' work. It considers how the education policies of successive Conservative and New Labour administrations in Britain have tightened central control over education undermining teacher discretion and directly impacting upon the labour process of the professionals concerned. The research was undertaken in an English primary school and data gathered in a variety of contexts including observations of the teachers in classrooms and the staff room, a governors/parents meeting, informal conversations and a series of semi-structured interviews with staff. The study explores how teachers make sense of the managerial culture in education, and how this is reconciled with their ideas about teaching and learning, and their professional interests and individual career aspirations. Structuration theory (Giddens, 1976, 1979, 1984) is used as a theoretical framework to explore whether there is conflict between teachers' professionalism and the new managerialism and examine how primary teachers make sense of this inextricable relationship.  相似文献   

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If teaching physical education is a moral activity, it follows that there is a moral component to the preparation of teachers of physical education and thus a moral component to the preparation of teacher educators. In this article, I examine the major policies, agendas, and practices that influence doctoral preparation in physical education teacher education. I argue from both a utilitarian and realist perspective that we can best serve children and youth in schools by being knowledgeable of the contexts and effects of these policies, agendas, and practices in educating future professors of physical education teacher education.  相似文献   

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This paper presents the results of an investigation of policy‐making (from 1872 to 1994) about teacher education in British Columbia, Canada. Its primary focus is threefold. First, it outlines the administrative structures established for the administration of teacher education. Second, it identifies the major issues and concerns considered by the major commissions and reviews of teacher education and the changes which have resulted over time. Finally, it distills the lessons which might be learned from the past. Major conclusions include: that a clearly articulated philosophy of teacher education has taken second place to the mechanics of teacher education; that political control sublimated the need for the development of clearly stated policy, and change over time appears to have been mandated by legislation rather than developed from local and institutional initiatives.  相似文献   

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Effective schoolwork includes discipline. Which disciplinary approach, however, is the most effective in a democratic society, and are schools practicing it? In this study 55 class teachers of 11–14 year-olds, and 245 6th-grade and 8th-grade students of primary school in Slovenia were surveyed to determine the teachers’ predominant disciplinary techniques. The basic finding of the study is that disciplinary techniques with a higher degree of teacher control and low student autonomy predominate. That kind of discipline is not in accordance with democratic principles. In the future, special attention must be given to reshaping disciplinary practice to become more democratic.  相似文献   

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《师资教育杂志》2012,38(1):19-34

Teacher educators in a post-apartheid South Africa are being asked to re-conceptualise and re-design their pre-service teacher education programmes to respond to new national policies on teacher education. A sample of teacher educators from various teacher education institutions was interviewed about their understanding, support for and implementation of the new policy and the problems they have faced in making it a reality. This article comments on the potential tension between reform through legislation and reform through personal and institutional vision-building.  相似文献   

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The emergence of personalised data technologies such as learning analytics is framed as a solution to manage the needs of higher education student populations that are growing ever more diverse and larger in size. However, the current approach to learning analytics presents tensions between increasing student agency in making learning-related decisions and ‘datafying’ students in the process of collecting, analysing and interpreting data. This article presents a study that explores staff and student experience of agency, equity and transparency in existing data practices and expectations towards learning analytics in a UK university. The results show a number of intertwined factors that have contributed to the tensions between enhancing a learner’s control of their studies and, at the same time, diminishing their autonomy as an active agent in the process of learning analytics. This article argues that learner empowerment should not be automatically assumed to have taken place as part of the adoption of learning analytics. Instead, the interwoven power relationships in a complex educational system and the interactions between humans and machines need to be taken into consideration when presenting learning analytics as an equitable process to enhance student agency and educational equity.  相似文献   

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