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Evolving University Partnerships in Teacher Education: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

This document explores the evolution of partnerships between universities and schools in teacher education. It examines the factors that have led to the need for change, including the rise of non-university pathways and government policies affecting education. The value of collaborative partnerships is emphasized, highlighting shared goals in initial teacher education (ITE), continuing professional development (CPD), and research. The paper discusses the complexities of both collaborative and separatist partnerships, aiming to offer insights on local and systemic strategies to enhance effective partnerships in the sector.

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Evolving University Partnerships in Teacher Education: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

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  1. Partnership : Where Now? Professor Gordon Kirk Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers APTE/TEAN 13 February 2012

  2. Plan • How did we get here? • Why Change? • Where do we go now?

  3. The Value of University Partnership • Strong expertise in teacher education and CPD • Intellectual capital and society • Awards and other forms of recognition • Quality assurance • Resource development • Administrative infrastructure

  4. The Ladder of Partnership Collaborative Partnership HEI-led partnership: focus on ITE “Separatist partnership”: focus on placement Hostility

  5. Collaborative Partnership • ITE embedded in other activities • Complementarity • Reciprocal benefits

  6. Why Change? • Growth of non-university routes • Erosion of complementarity • Blurring of school- and HEI-based • Government education agenda • Marketisation • The new research agenda • The analogy with medicine

  7. Where now? Collaborative partnership HEI-led: focus on ITE “separatist partnership”: focus on placement

  8. Learning Partnerships 1 • Agreed aims and strategies • School effectiveness • ITE • CPD • Research • Shared staffing • Shared power • Shared resources

  9. Learning Partnerships 2 • Shared conception of teaching as an evidence-based profession • A culture of evidence-based negotiation • A research and development agenda

  10. School HEI

  11. Separatist partnership School HEI

  12. Collaborative Partnership School HEI

  13. Learning partnership HEI School

  14. Gordon.Kirk8@btopenworld.com

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