NDLI: Innovating teacher education in a complex era

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Author	Tan, Oon Seng
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The meteoric increase in technological advancement in the last few decades has dramatically transformed how people live their lives. Innovation is seen to be essential as it ensures sustainable growth in a knowledge-based economy and a competitive global marketplace. Consequently, enabling innovation to occur becomes of prime concern to educators and policymakers. Education for the twenty-first century is about developing multiple intelligences and this demands for a holistic education system committed to enabling a learner to achieve his/her maximum potential. The learning environment in the twenty-first century needs to encompass a multiplicity of places, ideas and people that is technologically driven and often, a virtual rather than a physical space. The responsibility for creating such an environment lies in the teacher. This paper focuses on the role that teachers play in designing a powerful learning environment to drive twenty-first century learning and how teacher education must be re-designed to bring about possibilities of innovation. Possible design features of innovative teacher education programmes are outlined, including the need for a university-based teacher education programme, a strong emphasis on values and the changing role of teachers as mediators and designers of the learning environment. In order to nurture a future generation of strong thinkers, innovative problem-solvers and responsible and active local and global citizens, teachers need to consider teaching as a high calling. Finally, the paper emphasises the need for there to be strong partnerships and systemic coherence between key stakeholders of Education in order for the innovations to bring about transformation.
Starting Page	193
Ending Page	200
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15702081
Journal	Educational Research for Policy and Practice
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15731723
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-08-09
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Innovation Teacher education programmes Learning environment Twenty-first century education Education (general) Educational Policy and Politics International and Comparative Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Education

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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