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Relationship between competence‐based education and student reflection on practice: a UK case study of initial teacher training
Author(s) -
Burchell Helen,
Westmoreland Susan
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of training and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.558
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1468-2419
pISSN - 1360-3736
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2419.00074
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , teacher education , pedagogy , medical education , psychology , medicine , social psychology
The past six years have seen a major change in initial teacher training (ITT) in the UK through the introduction of national competences, later developed as standards, which govern the arrangements for teaching and assessing on all programmes leading to the award of qualified teacher status. This article takes as its focus the value to be placed on a competence‐based approach to ITT in the context of a programme which gives emphasis also to reflection on practice. The issues are first explored in a general way, and then examined through a case study of one higher education institution ITT programme.