Teacher supply : the key issues
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Teacher supply : the key issues
（Empirical studies in education）
Continuum, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-189) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One - An international crisis for the teaching workforce?
- Chapter Two - Re-considering the indications of the crisis
- Describing the teaching workforce
- Chapter Three - Who are the teachers?
- Chapter Four - Why do people become teachers?
- The strengths and weaknesses of the teaching workforce
- Chapter Five - Does teacher training make a difference?
- Chapter Six - Trends in teacher supply and demand. International perspectives on teacher quality
- Chapter Seven - The views of the employers
- Chapter Eight - Can we require 'highly-qualified' teachers?
- Conclusion
- Chapter Nine - Strengthening the teaching workforce
- Appendix - some of the larger tables relating to individual institutions
- References
- Index.
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