OK, please just tell us what to do: The challenge of freedom in teacher education

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Introduction Community partnerships and community oriented teaching and learning are currently strong themes in schooling and teacher education, and it could be argued that this approach to curriculum through partnerships, community based teaching and learning and service-learning is now ‘centre stage’. In July this year, for example, the International Center for Service Learning in Teacher Education (ICSLTE) is presenting an inaugural conference, the First International Conference on Service-Learning in Teacher Education (see http://www.clemson.edu/ICSLTE/conference/index.html). Recent Australian curriculum policy guidelines, likewise, emphasise the importance for schools to foster community linkages (Department of Education, Victoria, 2005a; Department of Education, Tasmania, 2006; Queensland College of Teachers, 2006).

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تاریخ انتشار 2007