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- Title
Ensuring academic depth and rigour in teacher education through benchmarking, with special attention to context.
- Authors
Steyn, H. J.; van der Walt, J. L.; Wolhuter, C. C.
- Abstract
Benchmarking is one way of ensuring academic depth and rigour in teacher education. After making a case for setting benchmarks in teacher education based on the widely recognised intra-education system contextual factors, the importance of also taking into account the external (e.g. the national-social) context in which teacher education occurs is highlighted. A five-step plan is offered for ensuring academic depth and rigour in teacher education through benchmarking. The process is illustrated with examples from the South African situation. The article concludes with an outline of the contextual conditions with which teacher educators in South Africa have to cope.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; EDUCATION benchmarking; TEACHER training; TEACHER education; EDUCATION of student teachers
- Publication
Perspectives in Education, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0258-2236
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18820/2519593X/pie.v34i1.3