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Education Science in Sweden: Promoting Research for Teacher Education or Weakening its Scientific Foundations?

  • University of Gothenburg

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Abstract

Certain common elements can be identified regarding teacher education development in advanced knowledge-based economies. One of these is the attempt, up until relatively recently, to develop a solid foundation of scientific professional knowledge for what Basil Bernstein called the teacher education Trivium: roughly speaking, pedagogical sciences: approximately the psychology, sociology and philosophy of education. Another more recent development is to reverse this trend through a returning emphasis on academic subjects. The present article is based on an analysis of this policy trajectory in Sweden.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)207-220
Number of pages14
JournalEducation Inquiry
Volume2
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Teacher education trivium
  • professional knowledge
  • teacher education quadrivium
  • vertical and horisontal discourse

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