This paper examines some of the effects of globalisation on education and teacher education. In particular it considers the contradictory demands of economic and cultural forms of globalisation, and between globalisation and localisation. Attempts to construct an "education space" in Europe and Asia are considered and various responses of teacher…

It is commonplace in current educational discourse for appeals to be made to the need to "educate for change", to "learn how to learn", to "prepare for the knowledge society". These are, in fact, entirely vacuous concepts. One might as well suggest that schools should "get pupils ready for temperature". Being empty of real meaning such appeals…

Current attempts in industrialised countries to regulate teacher education in increasingly prescriptive ways raise profound social, ethical and pedagogical issues. This paper looks at the challenge such prescriptions pose and suggests that such regulation serves the democratic state less well than a more autonomous form of education. The…