This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Furlong, J. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Ideology and Reform in Teacher Education in England: Some Reflections on Cochran-Smith and Fries

Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Ave., Cardiff CF10, WT, United Kingdom; furlongj{at}cardiff.ac.uk. His research interests include teacher education policy and practice, professional knowledge, learning in non-formal educational settings, and educational research policy and capacity development

This article presents an international perspective on Cochran-Smith and Fries’ (2001) recent analysis of the ways in which two competing ideologies are currently being employed in the United States in support of teacher education reform. In England over the last 15 years, teacher education has been fundamentally reformed and the arguments of both the "deregulators" and the "professionalizers" have been important in that process. Despite surface similarities, there remain important differences between the United States and England in how these two ideologies have been advanced and in the constituencies that have supported them. Teacher educators in England have been excluded from much of the public debate and the government has taken on the arguments of the professionalizers. What a comparison between these two countries demonstrates are the complexities involved in the globalization of ideologies.

Educational Researcher, Vol. 31, No. 6, 23-25 (2002)
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X031006023


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?