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CATEGORIES:Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)
SUMMARY:Educating Teachers in Developing World Contexts: T
 he imperative for radical reform - Bob Moon\, Emer
 itus Professor of Education: The Open University
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130429T171500
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/44186
DESCRIPTION:*ABSTRACT*\nThe school systems of all developing c
 ountries have expanded rapidly over the last decad
 e. The quest to have every child in basic educatio
 n by 2015 (A Millennium Development Goal) has galv
 anised governments and international agencies to t
 ake action. However the parallel challenge to prov
 ide sufficient\, well educated\, teachers lags som
 e way behind. In many developing countries teacher
  supply\, retention\, education and training are v
 erging on crisis. In this context Bob Moon will ar
 gue that a radical reform of teacher education str
 uctures and systems will be necessary if the life 
 chances of young people are to be improved. In par
 ticular he will suggest that the domination of Eur
 opean and North American orthodoxies towards teach
 er preparation are fostering conservative resistan
 ce to change. In making this analysis he will sugg
 est new strategies that need to be embraced\, incl
 uding a rethink of the research priorities current
 ly favoured by international agencies. He will als
 o suggest ways in which the UK Higher Education se
 ctor could play a more significant role in respond
 ing to the challenge to make global education syst
 ems more equitable and just. The presentation will
  draw on work from the ten country Teacher Educati
 on in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) programme that Bo
 b Moon founded and directed as well as his most re
 cent book\, ‘Teacher Education and The Challenge o
 f Development’\, which was published this year in 
 the series Education\, Poverty and International D
 evelopment edited by Madeleine Arnot and Chris Col
 clough.\n\n\n*BRIEF BIOGRAPHY*\nBob Moon was a sec
 ondary teacher and headteacher of two urban Britis
 h secondary comprehensive schools before moving in
 to the higher education sector. He was appointed P
 rofessor of Education at the Open University in 19
 88 with the task of developing all aspects of teac
 her education. His projects have twice won\, for t
 he OU\, The Queen’s Anniversary Award for Higher E
 ducation\, most recently in 2009 with The ten coun
 try ‘Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa’ (TES
 SA) programme\, an initiative now reaching half a 
 million teachers in all parts of the continent. Bo
 b Moon has been an adviser to many national govern
 ments and international organisations\, (including
  OECD\, DFID\, EU\, UNESCO\, UNICEF\, UNRWA and Th
 e World Bank) He has written extensively on curric
 ulum teaching and international aspects of educati
 on. His most recent books include ‘The Power of Pe
 dagogy’\, with the late Professor Jenny Leach and 
 ‘Teacher Education and the Challenge of Developmen
 t: A Global Analysis’. In 2012\, in recognition of
  his work in education\, he was appointed to The A
 cademy of Social Sciences.\n\nhttp://www.educ.cam.
 ac.uk/centres/cce/events/seminars.html\n
LOCATION:Room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Edu
 cation\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge
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