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Teacher Supply: The Key Issues
Issues concerning the supply of teachers are of perennial concern to both policy-makers and researchers in the world of education. This trenchant and wide-ranging study not only provides major new research findings but also a re-interpretation of extant data. Combining qualitative and (very extensive) quantitative research, Teacher Supply provides a rigorous and iconoclastic treatment of issues relating to the recruitment, quality, training, and retention of teachers throughout the developed world and offers important recommendations for the future.

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Teacher Supply: The Key Issues
Issues concerning the supply of teachers are of perennial concern to both policy-makers and researchers in the world of education. This trenchant and wide-ranging study not only provides major new research findings but also a re-interpretation of extant data. Combining qualitative and (very extensive) quantitative research, Teacher Supply provides a rigorous and iconoclastic treatment of issues relating to the recruitment, quality, training, and retention of teachers throughout the developed world and offers important recommendations for the future.

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Teacher Supply: The Key Issues

Teacher Supply: The Key Issues

Teacher Supply: The Key Issues

Teacher Supply: The Key Issues

Overview

Issues concerning the supply of teachers are of perennial concern to both policy-makers and researchers in the world of education. This trenchant and wide-ranging study not only provides major new research findings but also a re-interpretation of extant data. Combining qualitative and (very extensive) quantitative research, Teacher Supply provides a rigorous and iconoclastic treatment of issues relating to the recruitment, quality, training, and retention of teachers throughout the developed world and offers important recommendations for the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826487704
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/15/2006
Series: Continuum Empirical Studies in Education
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford, UK, where she teaches Shakespeare and early modern literature to undergraduates and graduates. Her work is mainly on Shakespeare and Renaissance dramatists. She has written extensively for an advanced student readership, as well as managed several edited collections through to successful publication.

Patrick White is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface List of contents List of tables List of figures Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1- An international crisis for the teaching workforce? Chapter 2- Re-considering the indications of the crisis Describing the teaching workforce Chapter 3- Who are the teachers? Chapter 4- Why do people become teachers? The strengths and weaknesses of the teaching workforce Chapter 5- Does teacher training make a difference? Chapter 6- Trends in teacher supply and demand- International perspectives on teacher quality Chapter 7- The views of the employers Chapter 8- Can we require 'highly-qualified' teachers? Chapter 9- Strengthening the teaching workforce Conclusion Appendix - some of the larger tables relating to individual institutions References Index

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