Initial Teacher Education
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As part of a common focus on teaching quality, the Ministry of Education and the New Zealand Teachers Council wanted to find out more about the quality of Māori-medium and general stream early childhood, primary and secondary initial teacher education in New Zealand, and the quality of graduates from these programmes. A number of pieces of research into initial teacher education were undertaken in 2004 and 2005 to inform future policy and practice.
Until the 1990s, New Zealand teachers completed their initial teacher education in one of a small number of specialist colleges of education. The deregulation of teacher education, the introduction of a competitive market, and changes in funding policies in the 1990s saw significant growth in the number of new providers and qualifications. By 2005, there were 27 providers offering 85 different qualifications.
The purpose of this study was to generate a systematic description of policy and practice across qualifications of initial teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand. The study was conducted in two phases.
The primary purpose of this project is to analyse New Zealand research about initial teacher education, and present findings in the form of an annotated bibliography and a literature review of initial teacher education in New Zealand from 1993 to the present. It is intended that the findings will inform future policy and practice and identify key areas for further research.