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Insights into the policy and practice of teacher education in low‐income countries: the multi‐site teacher education research project
Author(s) -
Lewin Keith M.,
Stuart Janet M.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192032000133703
Subject(s) - curriculum , teacher education , variety (cybernetics) , training (meteorology) , pedagogy , political science , developing country , educational research , economic growth , resource (disambiguation) , process (computing) , sociology , geography , economics , computer network , artificial intelligence , meteorology , computer science , operating system
The Multi‐Site Teacher Education Research project (MUSTER) explores initial teacher education in five countries—Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, and Trinidad and Tobago. National research teams collected and analysed data on key dimensions of the training process, which included the characteristics of those selected for training, the curriculum processes they experience, the outcomes of training, the reflections of newly trained teachers in schools, analysis of supply and demand for new teachers, and projections of the resource and cost implications of meeting national targets to universalise primary schooling. Many insights are contained in the extensive publications associated with the project, and these lead to a variety of evidenced‐based conclusions that will inform future policy.