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Turner, Marianne; Windle, Joel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
This article explores the kinds of teacher knowledge promoted in TESOL-related curriculum standards in five jurisdictions (Australia and England at the national level, New York City and New York State in the United States, and Ontario, Canada, at the subnational level). Such documents are increasingly important in defining, and potentially…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, English Teachers
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Little, Judith Warren; Bartlett, Lora – Review of Research in Education, 2010
In this chapter, the authors examine developments in the teacher workforce and in the occupation of teaching across recent generations. They take their point of departure from the perspective of prevailing policy discourse on enduring problems of educational equity, asking not only how teaching has evolved in recent decades but more specifically…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Educational Opportunities, Teaching Methods
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Gardiner, Di – Education Research and Perspectives, 2004
This study analyses how "Education" as an area of study was constructed at The University of Western Australia [UWA] during the period 1916-85. While there is little commentary available regarding the construction of "Education" in a curriculum sense, what evidence there is suggests that there was hostility towards the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Schools of Education, Teacher Education