"Training Teachers Is Our Society's Achille's Heel: The Demise Of Schools Of Education"

Robin Good:

Question: What big idea of 2006 will be extinct in 2036?
Answer: Modern teacher training

By 2036, the forms of teacher preparation that currently prevail in Western nations will have sunk into oblivion.

We will have discarded schools of education, the pedagogies they teach, and the certification apparatus that they serve. Such schools, pedagogies, and certifications have clung to life stubbornly for the better part of a century despite ample evidence of their unsuitability.

Why predict that in the next 30 years they will finally follow the giant ground sloth into the La Brea tar pit of history?

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 31, 2006 6:25 AM
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