In defence of holistic initial teacher education in English.

Nicholas McGuinn
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/ #2 Holistic ITT in English

2010-12-14 20:32

It is most important that English teachers continue to receive a significant amount of their training in university - a centre for international scholarship. To confine them to ITT in one or two schools is to risk a dangerous narrowing of vision and thus to move further towards a 'training' rather than an 'educational' model of ITT, one in which we merely ask 'how do I do thi better?' rather than 'why am I doing this?'