Opportunities and Challenges for Teacher Education Curriculum in South Africa

Opportunities and Challenges for Teacher Education Curriculum in South Africa forms part of the Teacher Education in South Africa series. The series documents a wide-ranging set of research projects on teacher education conducted by the Education, Science and Skills Development research programme within the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), as part of a consortium of research partners. A comprehensive investigation of the dynamics shaping the professional development of educators, the series provides important reading for educationists, academics and policy-makers.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

280mm x 210mm (Soft Cover)

Pages:

280

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2238-0

Publish Year:

2008

Rights:

World Rights

CHAPTER 1 Introduction
Glenda Kruss

CHAPTER 2 The challenges of curriculum restructuring in context: 19942007
Glenda Kruss

CHAPTER 3 A distant reality: Aligning curriculum at North West University
Ursula Hoadley

CHAPTER 4 Initial teacher education at Unisa: a closer look at distance education
Chaya Herman and Venitha Pillay

CHAPTER 5 Contestation and accountability: the IPET curriculum at the University of Zululand
Crispin Hemson

CHAPTER 6 Cutting and pasting: The fabric of teacher educators’ work at CPUT
Adele Gordon

CHAPTER 7 (Re) configuring the (con)text: IPET at the Wits School of Education
Adele Gordon

CHAPTER 8 Creating new knowledge or bureacratic compliance: comparative patterns of curriculum change
Glenda Kruss

REFERENCES

APPENDIX A. List of interviews
APPENDIX B. INTERVIEW SCHEDULES

Dr Glenda Kruss is a chief research specialist in the Education, Science and Skills Development research programme. She has a DPhil from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.