Distance Education for Teacher Training / Edition 1

by Hilary Perraton

Overview

Distance education, combining the use of correspondence texts, broadcasting and limited opportunities for face-to-face study, has been used in at least a hundred teacher training programmes over the last 25 years. Distance Education for Teacher Training is the first comparative review of the use of distance education and open learning for the training and upgrading of teachers. The book contains case studies using a broadly common format both to describe and analyse distance teacher training programmes in eleven countries across five continents. The case studies describe the methods used to examine how far the craft of teaching can be studied at a distance. Using a standardised microeconomic framework, they provide unique data on the comparative costs of training teachers by distance and conventional methods. The authors then draw general conclusions about the advantages and drawbacks of using distance education or open learning, about the conditions for success, and about comparative effects and costs. Distance Education for Teacher Training will be of value to all concerned with teacher education, whether in developing or industrialised countries, and to those working in and planning for distance education and open learning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415094658
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/08/1993
Pages:	422
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1.The context, Hilary Perraton. Preservice Initial Training of Teachers 2.Tanzania's TTD programme, Egino Chale 3.Zimbabwe Integrated Teacher Education Course, B R S Chivore. Inservice Initial Training of Teachers 4.LOGOS II Brazil, Jo o-Baptista Oliveira and Francois Orivel 5.Teacher Upgrading in Indoneseia and Sri Lanka, Dean T Neilsen and Maria Terea Tatto 6.Radio Education for Teacher Training in Nepal, Dwight R Holmes, D M Karmacharya, John K Mayo 7.National Teachers' Institute, Nigeria, Elizabeth Bako and Greville Rumble 8.Primary Teacher Orientation Course, Pakistan, Bernadette Robinson. Continuing Education 9.Educating Teachers at a distance in Australia, Terry Evans and Daryl Nation 10. Teacher Education at the Open University, William Prescott and Bernadette Robinson 11.Nairobi External Degree Programme, Ben Makau 12.Correspondence and Open Studies Institute, University of Lagos, Chris Cumming and F A Olaloku. Quality, Effectiveness and Costs 13.The Costs, Hilary Perraton 14.The Effects, Hilary Perraton.About the Authors. Bibliography

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