Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education

ISBN: 9781350094253 出版年：2020 页码：297 Michelle Stack Bloomsbury Publishing

Course Syllabi in Faculties of Education problematizes one of the least researched phenomena in teacher education, the design of course syllabi, using critical and decolonial approaches. This book looks at the struggles that scholars, policy makers, and educators from a diverse range of countries including Australia, Canada, India, Iran, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the USA, and Zambia face course syllabi in higher education settings. The chapter authors argsyllabi are political constructions, representing intense sites of struggles over visions of teacher education and visions of society. As such, they are deeply immersed Mignolo calls the “geopolitics of knowledge”. Authors also show how syllaakin to contractual documenrelations between instructors and students Basempirically grounded studies that are compared and contrasted, the chapters offer a clearer picture of how course syllabi function within distinct socio-political, economic, and historical contexts of practice and teacher education.