Description
Distance education, combining the use of correspondence texts, broadcasting and limited opportunities for face-to-face study, has been used in at least a hundred teacher-training programmes over the last quarter century. Distance Education for Teacher Training is the first comparative review of the use of distance education and open learning for the training and upgrading of teachers.
The book contains case studies using a broadly common format to describe and analyse distance teacher-training programmes in eleven countries across five continents. The case studies describe the methods used to examine how far the craft of teaching can be learnt at a distance. Using a standardized microeconomic framework, they provide unique data on the comparative costs of training teachers by distance and conventional methods. The books then draws general conclusions about the advantages and drawbacks of using distance education or open learning, about the conditions for success, and about comparative costs and effects.
Distance Education for Teacher Training will be of value to all concerned with teacher education, whether in developing or industrialised countries, and those working in distance education and open learning.
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1. The Context Hilary Perraton
Pre-service Initial Training of Teachers
2. Tanzania’s Distance-teaching Programme Egino M. Chale
3. The Zimbabwe Integrated Teacher Education Centre B.R.S. Chivore
In-service Initial Training of Teachers
4. Logos II in Brazil João-Batista Oliveira and François Orivel
5. Teacher Upgrading in Sri Lanka and Indonesia H. Dean Nielsen and Maria Teresa Tatto
6. Radio Education in Nepal Dwight R. Holmes, Dibya Man Karmacharya and John K. Mayo
7. The National Teachers’ Institute, Nigeria Catherine I. Bako and Greville Rumble
8. The Primary Teachers’ Orientation Course, Allama Iqbal Bernadette Robinson
Continuing Education
9. Educating Teachers at a Distance in Australia: Some Trends Terry D. Evans and Daryl E. Nation
10. Teacher Education at the Open University William Prescott and Bernadette Robinson
11. The External Degree Programme at the University of Nairobi Ben Makau
12. The Correspondence and Open Studies Institute, University of Lagos Chris Cunning and F.A. Olaloku
Quality, Effectiveness and Costs
13. The Costs Hilary Perraton
14. The Effects Hilary Perraton
Bibliography
Index