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Investigating the curriculum of initial teacher education in East Timor: a multi-perspective study
| Resumo: | At the Universidade Nacional de Timor- Lorosa´e (UNTL) Initial Teacher Education (ITE) has reformed its curriculum for several times since it was established. The reform is intended to the improvement of quality of education in the today’s world. The reform of the curriculum in initial teacher preparation derives from Transitional Curriculum, Minimum Curriculum Content and European Credit Transfer System. However, there is no special curriculum evaluation about the effectiveness of the curriculum reform and its implementation. Curriculum reforms were just based on political decisions. Curriculum reforms are influenced by politics in Teacher Education in East Timor. Its curriculum plays an important role for the development of the national identity through culture, social aspects and ideology, which are the priority for the development of the national education. Thus, the goal of Initial Teacher Education at UNTL is to provide professional educators for the schools around the territory. In reality, ITE plays an important role in improving the quality of the national education in East Timor. This research project aimed at examining the new curriculum for teacher education in East Timor. In this case, this thesis includes several phases and methods: document analysis; semi-structured interviews to policy makers, university teacher educators, students and school supervisors and finally focus groups with student teachers and university teachers for getting their various perspectives. The participants include 4 stakeholders of university and government; 20 student teachers and 5 teacher educators; 5 school supervisors; 2 university supervisors and one foreign lecturer. ITE provides student teachers with professional teaching methodologies and approaches of both theories and practice within the four or five year period. However, there are still some challenges faced by both students and teacher educators in the daily teaching and learning processes related to the lack of resources available at the university. Besides that, there is no preparation for the new curriculum implementation and some new subjects in the new curriculum are not related to the background study of the teacher educators. Data point to some suggestions in order to foster cooperation between government and the university setting. If the government and university pay more attention to the curriculum evaluation and reform, the quality of education can be improved in the right way. |
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| Autores principais: | Patrício, Sancho da Costa |
| Assunto: | Student Teachers Initial Teacher Education; Practicum Teacher Educators Alunos Futuros Professores Formação de Professores Estágio Formadores de Professores |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | tese de doutoramento |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | At the Universidade Nacional de Timor- Lorosa´e (UNTL) Initial Teacher Education (ITE) has reformed its curriculum for several times since it was established. The reform is intended to the improvement of quality of education in the today’s world. The reform of the curriculum in initial teacher preparation derives from Transitional Curriculum, Minimum Curriculum Content and European Credit Transfer System. However, there is no special curriculum evaluation about the effectiveness of the curriculum reform and its implementation. Curriculum reforms were just based on political decisions. Curriculum reforms are influenced by politics in Teacher Education in East Timor. Its curriculum plays an important role for the development of the national identity through culture, social aspects and ideology, which are the priority for the development of the national education. Thus, the goal of Initial Teacher Education at UNTL is to provide professional educators for the schools around the territory. In reality, ITE plays an important role in improving the quality of the national education in East Timor. This research project aimed at examining the new curriculum for teacher education in East Timor. In this case, this thesis includes several phases and methods: document analysis; semi-structured interviews to policy makers, university teacher educators, students and school supervisors and finally focus groups with student teachers and university teachers for getting their various perspectives. The participants include 4 stakeholders of university and government; 20 student teachers and 5 teacher educators; 5 school supervisors; 2 university supervisors and one foreign lecturer. ITE provides student teachers with professional teaching methodologies and approaches of both theories and practice within the four or five year period. However, there are still some challenges faced by both students and teacher educators in the daily teaching and learning processes related to the lack of resources available at the university. Besides that, there is no preparation for the new curriculum implementation and some new subjects in the new curriculum are not related to the background study of the teacher educators. Data point to some suggestions in order to foster cooperation between government and the university setting. If the government and university pay more attention to the curriculum evaluation and reform, the quality of education can be improved in the right way. |
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