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Comparative Education and Quality Global Learning: engaging with controversial issues in South Africa and the UK.
This book is one of the outcomes of Seeking Ubuntu, a Tide~ project that involved a group of UK teacher educators in a study visit to South Africa. Comparative study supported them in reflecting on their own, as well as South African, educational practice. It offers some insights into that experience featuring the authors’ analyses of education in both South Africa and the UK about how they used the experience to evaluate their everyday practice as teacher educators.
The 2007 Revised Standards for Qualified teacher Status: doubts, challenges and opportunities.
September 2007 saw the introduction of the new ‘Q’ standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status. Drawing on a meeting of 140 primary and secondary school ITT tutors, this article sets out to record and discuss the teachers’ initial reactions to these new standards a few weeks before their introduction. The article shows classroom teachers have significant concerns about a significant minority of the standards and this indicates that HEIs and other ITT providers now have a challenging management of change agenda.
Global Learning: What do pupils need?
This article argues that if pupils are to make progress, the curriculum needs to consider what pupils need from their education system in the context of a changing world.