Teacher Education Additional Resources

Articles on Teacher Education

1. Voice and Agency of Teachers, Missing Link in National Curriculum Framework 2005, Prof. Poonam Batra

Books on Teacher Education

1. Preparing Liberally Educated Teachers, Andrew Mullen

excerpt "A conception of the teacher’s role educational philosopher Israel Scheffler described some years ago as that of “a minor technician within an industrial process, the overall goals [for whom are], set in advance in terms of national needs, the curriculum materials pre-packaged by the disciplinary experts, the methods developed by educational engineers – and the teacher’s job...just to supervise the last operational stage, the methodical insertion of ordered facts into the students’ mind”