Teacher education policy in Africa: purpose and impact.
Owolabi, Samuel OlajideAbstract:
This paper defines policy; and the descriptive and prescriptive approaches to the analysis of educational policies, to establish a framework within which teacher education policy in Africa is examined, in the latter parts of the paper. It discusses the policy issues relating to teacher trainee selection; pre-service and in-service teacher training; the curriculum of teacher training institutions; teacher employment and deployment; and teacher disengagement. On each of these, the current state of affairs, and its implications, is discussed; and a state of the art, and its potential for enhancing the quality of education, is suggested
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| Title of Paper: | Teacher education policy in Africa: purpose and impact. |
| Conference Name: | DETA Conference on addressing the quality and number of teachers in Africa |
| Conference Date: | 0000-00-00 |
| Published as Proceedings: | no |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Document Type: | Conference Paper (Not Peer Reviewed) |
| Subject Area: | Teaching and Learning |
| Country: | African Continent |
| Keywords: | Policy, Policy Issues, Policy Analysis, Teachers, Education Policy, Education Systems |
| File Size: | 43 KB |
| Rights: | Permission granted by author |
| Date Added: | 18 March 2009 |