Teacher education as democratic public sphere

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Service Learning as Scholarship in Teacher Education

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Public sphere and intellectual discourses in Iran

Doing the ultimate public good through Teacher Education

It is argued here that the many public goods associated with education are derivatives of an ultimate good. This ultimate good is the overall purpose of life in general and is similar to a telos as understood in ancient Greek culture. This paper reviews the notions of ‘good' and telos, and examines implications of Bauman’s analysis of our present individualizing era, the role of personal meanin...

Blending Projects Serving Public Education into Teacher Training

About 10 years ago informatics teacher training did not seem to be too productive. Even though many students graduated, most of them chose well paid jobs as IT specialists rather than underpaid teacher positions in Hungary. What is then the reason for striving to provide the most up-to-date technology and methodology for future teachers who will never be able to transfer their gained knowledge ...