Organising Peer Tutoring in Higher and Further Education |
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| Authors: | KJ Topping |
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| Institution: | University of Dundee, The Centre for Paired Learning at the Department of Psychology , Dundee, DD14HN, Scotland Phone: 0382 223181 Fax: 0382 223181 ?K.j.topping@dundee.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores catalysts and contexts leading to a restructuring of the secondary teacher education program at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. The Dean of the Faculty of Education and the Head of the School of Teacher Education had been involved in discussions over a number of years about the unsatisfactory nature of the ‘Dip Ed’ (see Eltis, Meyenn and Parker, 1993). The dissatisfaction was exacerbated by surveys of, and interviews with, students and by the publication in early 1994 of Shaping the Future (Wiltshire Report). There was, too, the influence of overseas developments in teacher education, particularly those that reflected a determination to ensure schools, practising teachers and universities were working in partnerships to design, implement and evaluate more relevant programs. And just as significantly, there was the close association between the School of Teacher Education and one of the local secondary schools, Bathurst High School, which heralded the possibilities of a purposeful educational partnership. |
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