"The Right Track"

Teacher Training and the New Right

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6060306
AutoresNeil Lunt (0000-0002-4501-1999, autor de correspondencia), Peter Mckenzie (0000-0002-8575-9336), Loraine Powell
Año1994
Volumen26
Número3
Páginas66-85
Fecha de publicación1994-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1056-4934 • E-ISSN: 1944-7086
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2753/eue1056-4934260366
OpenAlexW2351149895
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias 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