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Teacher Education in Research Universities: Dilemmas and Opportunities 讲座人： Jane Gaskell （OISE, University of Toronto) 时 间： 2011年11月1日（周二）下午16:10-18:00 地 点： 北京外国语大学 逸夫楼 203教室 讲座内容： Teacher education takes no single form in countries around the world; there are increasingly divergent patterns of teacher preparation, based in the schools, in colleges, in universities and in NGOs. This paper will trace the debate about the role of research universities, and make the argument that they have much to contribute to high quality teacher education. The knowledge, status and research that universities provide are necessary if teaching is to become a respected and skilled profession. While universities sometimes resist the close partnerships with schools which are necessary for successful teacher education, these partnerships enhance educational research and increase our collective knowledge of education. 讲座人简介： Professor Jane Gaskell is Professor of Theory & Policy Studies in Education of Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of University of Troonto. She went to school in Toronto then completed an Honors BA (Sociology) at Swarthmore College and an EdD in sociology of education at Harvard University. She returned to Canada to teach first at Queen' s University, then at the University of British Columbia. While at UBC, she was Chair of the Department of Social and Educational Studies and then served as Associate Dean Research and Graduate Studies before becoming the first female Dean of education at the University of Toronto in 2003. Professor Gaskell is an experienced teacher and graduate supervisor. She has carried out research and produced publications on a range of educational issues, including the organization of Canadian secondary schooling, the links between education and the workplace, feminist approaches to education and the politics of educational research. Her studies on the aspirations of young women, the organization of clerical education and the dilemmas of school choice have been funded by individual grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. On other projects, like the Western Educational Research Network and the Canadian Exemplary Schools Project, she has been principal investigator of large, networked, collaborative teams; still other research has been carried out on a smaller scale with Canadian colleagues. Her current research, with Ben Levin, is on the history of approaches to poverty in the Toronto and Winnipeg school boards. She has also served as President of the Canadian Association for Foundations of Education and the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, and been a member of the Council of the Social Sciences Federation of Canada and its Vice-President External Relations. She was a member of the Council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Chair of its Research and Dissemination Committee. She has also served as a consultant, a member of a number of expert advisory committees and on the editorial boards of several journals 中心办公室 2011年10月31日 (责任编辑：admin) |