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Teacher Supply Stephen Gorard

Teacher Supply By Stephen Gorard

Teacher Supply by Stephen Gorard


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Summary

Issues concerning the supply of teachers are of perennial concern to both policy-makers and researchers in the world of education. This study provides research findings and an iconoclastic treatment of issues relating to the recruitment, quality, training, and retention of teachers throughout the developed world.

Teacher Supply Summary

Teacher Supply: The Key Issues by Stephen Gorard

Issues concerning the supply of teachers are of perennial concern to both policy-makers and researchers in the world of education. This trenchant and wide-ranging study not only provides major new research findings but also a re-interpretation of extant data. Combining qualitative and (very extensive) quantitative research, Teacher Supply provides a rigorous and iconoclastic treatment of issues relating to the recruitment, quality, training, and retention of teachers throughout the developed world and offers important recommendations for the future.

Teacher Supply Reviews

"is an interesting book" Journal of Education for Teaching, vol.34, No 4, November 2008 -- Alan Smithers

About Stephen Gorard

Professor Gorard, Dr Beng Huat See and Dr Smith: Department of Educational Studies, York Dr White: Department of Sociology, Leicester. Gorard has published with McGraw-Hill (New York), Routledge Falmer, Open UP, Hodder & Stoughton, University of Wales P.

Table of Contents

Preface; List of contents; List of tables; List of figures; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One - An international crisis for the teaching workforce?; Chapter Two - Re-considering the indications of the crisis; Describing the teaching workforce; Chapter Three - Who are the teachers?; Chapter Four - Why do people become teachers?; The strengths and weaknesses of the teaching workforce; Chapter Five - Does teacher training make a difference?; Chapter Six - Trends in teacher supply and demand. International perspectives on teacher quality; Chapter Seven - The views of the employers; Chapter Eight - Can we require 'highly-qualified' teachers?; Conclusion; Chapter Nine - Strengthening the teaching workforce; Appendix - some of the larger tables relating to individual institutions; References; Index.

Additional information

NPB9780826487704
9780826487704
082648770X
Teacher Supply: The Key Issues by Stephen Gorard
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2006-10-15
208
N/A
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