Extended competence in teacher education: Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?

Westbury, Ian

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Title

Extended competence in teacher education: Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?

Author(s)

Westbury, Ian

Issue Date

2003

Keyword(s)

• Teacher education
• Social work education
• Hansen, Sven-Erik
• Extended competence (of teachers)
• Extended competance (of social workers)
• Generalist programs

Geographic Coverage

United States

Abstract

This paper, written for a Festschift for Professor Sven-Erik Hansén of Åbo Akademi (Finland), seeks to explore, using using U.S. cases within teacher and social work education, the implications of Hansén's advocacy of an “extended competence model” of teacher education. This model reflected changes in the 1990s in the roles of municipalities and schools in the governance within the Finnish national school system. The vision system went from a highly centralized system to one firmly based within schools and communities. The chapter considers, first, problems within teacher education in the US, and particularly Illinois. Second, the essay draws on an evaluation of a developmental “pre-service” program in social work, the generalist program. I suggest that, in contrast to most U.S. pre-service programs in teacher education, the generalist program operationalized within social work education Hansén's extended competance model and is very suggestive for such an idea within pre-service teacher education.

Publisher

Pedagogiska fakulteten, Åbo Akademi

Series/Report Name or Number

In Jan Sjöberg, Håkan Andersson & Ole Bjökqvist (eds.) Läraren och Pedaogiken: Festskrift tillägnad Sven-Erik Hansén. (Vasa: Pedagogiska fakulteten, Åbo Akademi, 2003), pp. 3–18.

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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