Co-existing sites of teacher education: a university and school partnership in Glasgow

Boland, M. and Dickson, B. (2023) Co-existing sites of teacher education: a university and school partnership in Glasgow. In: Acquaro, D. and Bradbury, O. J. (eds.) International Perspectives on School-University Partnerships: Research, Policy and Practice. Springer, pp. 55-68. ISBN 9789819908066 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-0807-3_5)

Abstract

This chapter seeks to explore the ways in which the partnership model of teacher education at the University of Glasgow became an enabling structure for two key Scottish Government policy objectives: professionalising initial teacher education as recommended in Teaching Scotland’s Future (Donaldson, Teaching Scotland’s future. Edinburgh, Scottish Government, 2011) and closing the poverty-related attainment gap through the Scottish Attainment Challenge (2015). The partnership model anticipated the need for sites of teacher education to co-exist in a mutually beneficial relationship for staff in both universities and schools. The model, ever-changing, has evolved to respond to the need for teachers within the Scottish context who are able to create pedagogical approaches which will support the narrowing of the poverty-related attainment gap. This chapter considers a school–university partnership funded by the Scottish Government and operated by the University of Glasgow and Glasgow City Council (the local authority which employs teachers). The pilot project developed into a mature relationship between the university and ten local authorities. The chapter will give an outline of how the partnership came about; its structure and roles; its funding; its evaluation; and its evolution. Education is one of the most important issues over which Scotland, one of the constituent nations of the UK has complete control in its devolved Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh (inter alia Redford et al., Scottish Education, Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Boland, Professor Moyra and Dickson, Dr Beth
• Authors: Boland, M., and Dickson, B.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Education > Pedagogy, Praxis & Faith
• Publisher: Springer
• ISBN: 9789819908066