Uncertainty in Teacher Education Futures Scenarios, Politics and STEM /

• Main Authors: Schuck, Sandy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Aubusson, Peter (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Burden, Kevin (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Brindley, Sue (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Teaching.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Professional education.; Vocational education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Professional & Vocational Education.

This book discusses the use of futures methodologies to examine and critique teacher education and investigate drivers of change in teacher education contexts, providing readers with futures tools that they can use to explore curricula and pedagogies.  It explains futures methods, including scenario...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Why the Future is Important
• Chapter 2 Key Drivers of Teacher Education
• Chapter 3 Politics of Education: Tensions and paradoxes
• Chapter 4 Current Trends in Technology-enhanced Learning
• Chapter 5 Changing Knowledge, Changing Education
• Chapter 6 Future Methodology: Approaches, methods, tools and techniques
• Chapter 7 Teacher Educators Working with Scenarios
• Chapter 8 Backcasting: Testing the feasibility of alternative futures
• Chapter 9 Schooling Scenarios: Looking back to look forward
• Chapter 10 Knowledge and Technology Challenging the Future
• Chapter 11 Mobile STEM Learning Scenarios
• Chapter 12 Science Education: Past crises, potential futures
• Chapter 13 Backcasting Mathematics Teaching: Preservice teachers' voices
• Chapter 14 Future - Always Coming Never Comes: Embracing imagination and learning.