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A Critical Consideration of the Teacher Education Curriculum’s Practice Turn

  • Global Creative Leader: Education & Learning
  • Abbr : GCL
  • 2021, 11(4), pp.89-110
  • DOI : 10.34226/gcl.2021.11.4.89
  • Publisher : Research Institute for Gifted & Talented Education, Soongsil University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : November 15, 2021
  • Accepted : November 24, 2021
  • Published : December 31, 2021

SEO YONGSEOK 1 Baul Chung 1

1서울교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

A certain reformative movement can be sensed in the current critical discourse concerning the teacher education curriculum. In this paper, it is termed ‘practice turn’ in that the movement seeks to strengthen the practical relevance of the teacher education curriculum. The importance of this turn can be rightly appreciated by placing it in the context of the policy problem. Yet, in policy discourse is reflected some fundamental transformation of consciousness, which traced back to the collapse of positivism dominating the teacher education curriculum since the late 19th century. In the positivistic curriculum of teacher education, teaching practice was unjustifiably subordinate to principles and doctrines offered by scientific educational theory. It is in the struggle against this positivistic way of thinking that practice has begun to be valued in its epistemological resource for teacher education. It is suggested, however, that some more balanced and productive relations between theory and practice should be sought for the teacher education curriculum, which would then serve to produce a teacher as a man of existence.

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