"The Right Track"

Teacher Training and the New Right

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6060306
AutoresNeil Lunt (0000-0002-4501-1999, autor correspondente), Peter Mckenzie (0000-0002-8575-9336), Loraine Powell
Ano1994
Volume26
Fascículo3
Páginas66-85
Data de publicação1994-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1056-4934 • E-ISSN: 1944-7086
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2753/eue1056-4934260366
OpenAlexW2351149895
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

The importance of education within the New Right philosophy has been well analyzed and documented. The attempt to cut costs, the pursuit of efficiency, and improving standards along with greater parental choice and participation are some of the stated policy directions. This article seeks an analysis of the New Right philosophies that have so influenced the Conservatives' direction within initial teacher training, having a major impact on recent initiatives. In doing so it will take three directions: (a) it will offer an understanding of the New Right philosophies; (b) it will examine changes past, present, and future within schoolteacher education; and (c) it will place these within a wider framework of the New Right philosophies and strategies. In particular it will look at why traditional methods have been criticized. The article argues that policy within teacher training must not be seen in isolation, for it is related to wider educational issues and social policy arenas, in particular to the development of a "quasi-market."

Higher education · New Right · Philosophy of education · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Engineering · Law · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies