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Bates, Richard – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2008
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…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
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Bates, Richard – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2005
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…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Futures (of Society), Context Effect, Teacher Role