Transforming Norwegian teacher education: the final report of the international advisory panel for primary and lower secondary teacher education

Report

On 1 April 2016, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research commissioned NOKUT to establish a panel of international experts on teacher education (APT) to advise Norwegian higher education institutions. This report presents two sets of recommendations about core issues in primary and lower secondary teacher education. One set, which deals with systemic or policy issues, is addressed to the Ministry of Education and Research and to NOKUT. The second set, which deals with collaboration and joint responsibility for teacher education, is addressed to the TEIs and their school and municipality partners. The report focuses on five transformative aspects: collaboration across multiple stakeholders, the active agency of all participants in knowledge building and learning, building research competence and capacity for all student teachers and teacher educators, enhancing the practice orientation of student teachers’ school experiences and master’s theses, and ensuring the sustainability of reforms by providing the necessary infrastructure, resources, mechanisms, and tools.

Authors: Cochran-Smith, M; Alexandersson, M; Ellis, V; Grudnoff, L; Hammerness, K

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: NOKUT
• Place of publication: Oslo
• Publication date: 2020-01-01
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-9o4xavrkv
• ISSN: 1892-1604
• Language: English
• Keywords: education reform; teaching practice; teacher education research; education in Norway; teacher education; teacher profession; MSc