Review article

PERFORMANCE AND/OR EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Marko Palekčić ; Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Abstract

This paper presents selected international empirical studies
on the effectiveness of teacher education. The following studies are presented: Teacher Education Structure in International Comparison Studies (Blömeke, 2006, 2008 and MT21, 2007), Structure of Competences of Students of Teacher Education (Frey, 2004, 2005), and How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top (McKinesy & Company, 2007). From the perspective of methodology and educational theory, the author critically considers
the potential contributions (and limitations) of these studies to the reforms of teacher education at a national level. In doing so, he seeks answers to the following questions: what do the results of these studies mean for the potential effects of teacher education; can the reality of teacher education be sufficiently described at the level of the system; and what do the results of these studies
mean for the formation, or improvement, of the quality of the teacher education system?

Keywords

effectiveness of teacher education; critical review; comparative empirical studies; improvement of the quality of teacher education; the Bologna system of study

Hrčak ID:

29584

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/29584

Publication date:

28.11.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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