Middle Level Teacher Preparation across International Contexts: Understanding Local and Global Factors Influencing Teacher Education (Routledge Research in Teacher Education)

This volume offers a cross-national analysis of teacher education programs designed to prepare teachers for work in middle level schools. The book showcases 15 detailed case studies of courses at institutions across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa--including from countries currently underrepresented in middle level literature--which provide detailed information on programming whilst foregrounding the political, social, and cultural factors which have influenced priorities within teacher education. Underpinning the book is a comparative case study framework, used to identify divergences and commonalities within and across nations whereby factors such as globalization, policy, and socio-cultural views of teaching and adolescence are explored as determinants of the nature, success, and challenges of middle level teacher preparation. This text will benefit scholars, academics, and students in the fields of middle level education, teacher education, and international and comparative education. Those involved with educational policy and politics, as well as teacher training and the sociology of education more broadly, will also benefit from this volume Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Foreword by Penny Bishop Introduction 1. Teacher Preparation for Middle Level Education: An International Perspective PART I: Middle Level Teacher Preparation in Africa 2. Teacher Training at the Oldest Institute in Angola: Preparing Secondary Level English Language Teachers 3. Teacher Training at the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique in Bukavu, République Démocratique du Congo 4. Middle Level Teacher Education in Uganda: Reclaiming Your Past, Identifying Your Present, and Imagining Your Future PART II: Middle Level Teacher Preparation in Asia-Pacific 5. Understanding the Middle Years Learner: The Role of Service-Learning in an Initial Teacher Education Program 6. Teaching Teachers How to Teach Adolescents: A Regional Australian Perspective 7. Teaching beyond the Test: Preparing Teachers of Young Adolescents in Japan PART III: Middle Level Teacher Preparation in Europe and the Middle East 8. Nord University: Teacher Education in Transition 9. Educación Artística en España: Promoting Democratic Values in Young Adolescents through Critical Visual Thinking in Social Studies Teacher Education in Murcia, Spain 10. Teacher Training for the Middle School Level in Turkey: The Example of Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education PART IV: Middle Level Teacher Preparation in the Americas 11. Preservice Preparation for Middle Level International School Teachers 12. Our Journey in Middle Years Education: Collaboration to Enhance Community in Central Alberta, Canada 13. A Lab School Partnership That Prepares Middle Grades Teachers in Guatemala 14. Middle Level Teacher Preparation at the University of South Carolina Aiken 15. Problematizing the Relationship between State Policy and Educator Preparation: The Case of Middle Level Education Program at CSU San Marcos 16. Middle Grades Teacher Education Program in the John H. Lounsbury College of Education: Historically Progressive Conclusion 17. Middle Level Teacher Preparation across International Contexts: Program Features and Influential Factors Index "This volume offers cross-national analysis of teacher education programs designed to prepare teachers for work in Middle-level schools. The book showcases fifteen detailed case studies of courses at institutions across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa - including form countries currently underrepresented in middle level literature - which provide detailed information on programming whilst foregrounding the political, social, and cultural factors which have influenced priorities within teacher education. Underpinning the book is a comparative case study (CCS) framework, used to identify divergences and commonalities within and across nations whereby factors such as globalization, policy, and socio-cultural views of teaching and adolescence are explored as determinants of the nature, success, and challenges of Middle-level teacher preparation. This text will benefit scholars, academics, and students in the fields of Middle- level education, teacher education, and international and comparative education. Those involved with educational policy and politics, and well as teacher training and the sociology of education more broadly will also benefit from this volume. Cheryl R. Ellerbrock is Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education at the University of South Florida, USA. Katherine M. Main is Associate Professor at Griffith University, Australia"-- Provided by publisher Ce Portrait inachevé est à la fois celui de deux existences hors du commun et d’une époque tragique vécue dans l’ombre portée de l’Holocauste. Miriam Frank, dans L’Absence ni le temps... avait retracé sa « vie déracinée » d’un continent à l’autre. Ici, elle fait revivre principalement la personnalité de sa mère et s’interroge aussi sur l’intensité parfois orageuse de leurs relations et sur la profondeur de leur affection mutuelle. Après une longue séparation, tandis qu’elle poursuit à Londres une brillante carrière médicale, Miriam accueille sa mère Käte Lichstenstein, atteinte d’un mal incurable et l’assiste jusqu’à la fin (1984). Le passé ressurgit. Quelques photos, quelques confidences d’amis proches, des souvenirs personnels vont guider Miriam sur la voie d’une enquête intime qui compose presque une double autobiographie. Qui était vraiment Käte dans sa jeunesse ? Que fut sa vie à Berlin capitale de toutes les audaces vers la fin du régime de Weimar? Que furent ses engagements politiques au sein du Parti communiste allemand puis dans le camp républicain espagnol, dans la petite société cosmopolite et libertaire qui s’était formée en Catalogne? Portrait inachevé c’est aussi un éloquent exemple de fermeté, d’intelligence et d’humanité.