Overview
- Offers a comprehensive overview of the theories of practice-based teaching and teacher education, and key issues affecting the deployment of practice-based teaching and teacher education across South Asia
- Highlights innovations in the combined practices of practice-based teaching and teacher education
- Acts as a key reference text with editorial introductions to help to facilitate the linkage between local education and teaching and teacher education specific scholarship and practices and global literature on these topics in other fields
Part of the book series: South Asian Education Policy, Research, and Practice (SAEPRP)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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The Enduring and the New Questions in Teaching and Teacher Education
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Empirical Research on Teaching in South Asia
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Empirical Research on Teacher Education in South Asia
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Humanizing, Professionalizing, and Intellectualizing the Policy Goals
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Conclusion
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Keywords
About this book
This edited volume brings together diverse thinkers and practitioners from the field of teaching and teacher education as it pertains to educational development in South Asia. In this volume, authors draw from their research, practice, and field experiences, showcasing how teaching and teacher education are currently being carried out, understood, theorized, debated, and implemented for the education of children and teachers alike in South Asia. The volume also includes practitioner voices, which are often marginalized in academic discourse. This book acts as a key reference text for academics and practitioners interested in the intersection of education and development in the region, and in particular what it takes to pull off ambitious teaching and teacher education in South Asia.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rohit Setty was a USIEF Fulbright–Nehru Fellow with the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s Regional Institute of Education, Mysore, India, and holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, USA.
Radhika Iyengar is Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA.
Matthew A. Witenstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at University of Dayton, USA.
Erik Jon Byker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading and Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
Huma Kidwai is Education Specialist with the World Bank’s East Africa Division (Education–Global Practice). She holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching and Teacher Education
Book Subtitle: South Asian Perspectives
Editors: Rohit Setty, Radhika Iyengar, Matthew A. Witenstein, Erik Jon Byker, Huma Kidwai
Series Title: South Asian Education Policy, Research, and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26879-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26878-7Published: 18 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26881-7Published: 18 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26879-4Published: 07 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-4439
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4447
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 363
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, International and Comparative Education, History of South Asia, Educational Policy and Politics