Engaging in Conversation about Ideas in Teacher Education

«Fiona J Benson and Caroline Riches are to be congratulated for the achievement of this engaging and important education text. These pages, drawing on leading teacher education researchers and practitioners, form conversation, reflection, and a call to action. The themes of this book explore the governance of teacher education, the landscape of existing programmes, the way in which the school practicum is pursued, the challenge of social justice as the objective and practice of teacher education, and ensuring sustainability through troubled and troubling futures. This is a text for all stakeholders in teacher education, not so much because it provides a blueprint for an ideal form of teacher education, but because it guides us in approaching the questions that confront us in preparing teachers with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to educate in and for new times.» (Roger Slee, Research Chair of Inclusive Education, Institute of Education, University of London)
«Fiona J Benson and Caroline Riches are to be congratulated for the achievement of this engaging and important education text. These pages, drawing on leading teacher education researchers and practitioners, form conversation, reflection, and a call to action. The themes of this book explore the governance of teacher education, the landscape of existing programmes, the way in which the school practicum is pursued, the challenge of social justice as the objective and practice of teacher education, and ensuring sustainability through troubled and troubling futures. This is a text for all stakeholders in teacher education, not so much because it provides a blueprint for an ideal form of teacher education, but because it guides us in approaching the questions that confront us in preparing teachers with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to educate in and for new times.» (Roger Slee, Research Chair of Inclusive Education, Institute of Education, University of London)