1. Exploring Partnerships in teacher education
Dr Clare Brooks
Director of Initial Teacher Education
Head of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
APTE 2017

2. What are partnerships for?

3. What are partnerships in teacher education seeking to achieve?

4. Changing times …

5. The view from here …

6. The business of teacher education
Orchard and Winch (2015)
Teachers as executive technicians
“told prescriptively by others what to do, without needing to understand why they are being told to do it “
Teachers as craft workers
“Teaching is a craft and it is best learnt as an apprentice observing a master craftsman or woman. Watching others, and being rigorously observed yourself as you develop, is the best route to acquiring mastery in the classroom (Gove, 2010)”
Teachers as professionals

7. Teachers as professionals
“The teacher who is able to engage with theory and the findings of educational research shares with the craft worker teacher a capacity for self-direction. By contrast, though, the professional teacher is able to judge right action in various school and classroom contexts from a more reliable basis for judgment than intuition or common sense. A teacher who is able to make good situational judgments does not rely on hearsay or unreflective prejudice. She draws on a well-thought-through and coherent conceptual framework, on knowledge of well-substantiated empirical research, and on considered ethical principles, to arrive at decisions in the classroom context.” (ibid p14)

8. Professional Compass

9. How do you get a professional compass?
Friedson (2001) – The Third Logic
3 types of occupation that require training
Skilled – apprenticeship, work-placed
Technical – specialist training, work and outside school
Professions – need university input

10. The role of Universities (according to Friedson) …
legitimise and control knowledge
control entry to the profession – by controlling the stem of new recruits
Sit outside practice, but contribute –
"intellectual authority" and "occupational community"
Creates tensions and challenges between practitioners and university

11. What’s the impact on partnerships?

12. Thank you!
Clare Brooks