Open AccessComparing the school-university partnership practices in Education College and University: Student teachers' perspectives
Author(s) -
Khin Khin Thant Sin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
opus et educatio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2064-9908
DOI - 10.3311/ope.379
Subject(s) - general partnership , pedagogy , focus group , medical education , qualitative research , teacher education , sociology , psychology , mathematics education , political science , medicine , social science , anthropology , law
Collaboration and networking between universities and schools are the main components to support teacher education in this 21st century. This article investigated into the current practices of the school-university partnership (SUP) in two teacher training institutes in Myanmar. The aim of the article is to understand current collaboration practices between university, college, and schools. A qualitative method was conducted in this study through focus group, formal and informal interviews. The teacher educators’ demonstrations of teaching are observed. The interview results showed that there is a lack of a strong partnership between partners, focusing more on administrative purposes, rather than the training of student teachers. Observation showed that school-university partnerships would be more effective in teacher training if the school teachers and teacher educators collaborate in the demonstrative teaching for student teachers.