What is it about?
The standards for newly qualified teachers in Australia, Scotland and Sweden are analysed in order to determine the extent to which they contain human elements (contextual professionalism) and/or paradigmatic knowledge.
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Why is it important?
The results indicate that the Australian and Scottish standards emphasise paradigmatic knowledge in teaching, whereas the now abandoned Swedish standards emphasise contextual professionalism in teaching.
Perspectives
This paper highlights the different positioning of teachers in the respective countries with a more technician-approach adopted for teachers in Australia, a more autonomous professional approach in Sweden and a more mixed approach in Scotland.
Dr Rachel K Shanks
University of Aberdeen
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This page is a summary of: Human elements and the pragmatic approach in the Australian, Scottish and Swedish standards for newly qualified teachers, Journal of Educational Change, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10833-018-9321-8.
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