Rethinking Policies: The Balancing Act of Building a Stable Workforce and Improving Teachers’ Capacity on an Educational Budget

Autor: Anna Elizabeth Du Plessis
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Out-of-Field Teaching and Education Policy ISBN: 9789811519475
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1948-2_10
Popis: Getting education policies right benefits educational budgets. The implementation of policies and decisions about teacher performance assessments, curriculum improvements and other adjustments, transformation and change are affected by teachers’ capacity, ability and expertise in the subject areas or year levels that they teach. Concurrently, policy decisions impact teachers’ interpretations of their vocation and vocational context, and thus the strategies and approaches they use to implement these policies inside the realities of their workplace. In addition, education policies influence the culture of an education system, and those of its schools and classrooms. To be effective, policies aiming to build a stable, strong and quality workforce need to be deeply embedded in the realities of teaching where they will ultimately be implemented.
Databáze: OpenAIRE