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Transforming teacher education, an activity theory analysis

McNicholl, Jane and Blake, Allan (2013) Transforming teacher education, an activity theory analysis. Journal of Education for Teaching, 39 (3). pp. 281-300. ISSN 0260-7476

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Abstract

This paper explores the work of teacher education in England and Scotland. It seeks to locate this work within conflicting socio-cultural views of professional practice and academic work. Drawing on an activity theory framework that integrates the analysis of these contradictory discourses with a study of teacher educators’ practical activities, including the material artefacts that mediate the work, the paper offers a critical perspective on the social organisation of university-based teacher education. Informed by Engeström’s activity theory concept of transformation, the paper extends the discussion of contradictions in teacher education to consider the wider socio-cultural relations of the work. The findings raise important questions about the way in which teacher education work within universities is organised and the division of labour between schools and universities.

Item type: Article
ID code: 44043
Keywords: teacher education, cultural historical activity theory, academic work, division of labour, transformation, activity theory analysis, Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education , Education
Subjects: Education > Special aspects of education > Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Education > Education
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited: 12 Jun 2013 10:04
Last modified: 03 Mar 2019 01:40
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URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44043
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