The ETRF, Robust Hope and Teacher Education: Making practical reforms to the senior phase of learning

Robust hope aims to contribute to educational praxis. In Australia, what counts as teacher education is currently determined at the individual State and Territory level. Yet the demand side of teacher education is determined by responses to the effects of global marketplace forces that impact on cha...

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Published in:Asia-Pacific journal of teacher education 2007-08, Vol.35 (3), p.273-289
Main Author: Harreveld, Bobby
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Australia
Community Programs
Curriculum
Education reform
Educational Change
Educational finance
Evaluation
Federal state relationship
Foreign Countries
Hope
Learning
Policy analysis
Queensland
Reform
Secondary education
Secondary schools
Social justice
Socioeconomic factors
State departments of education
State Government
Student assessment
Teacher Education
Workforce planning
Youth
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Summary:Robust hope aims to contribute to educational praxis. In Australia, what counts as teacher education is currently determined at the individual State and Territory level. Yet the demand side of teacher education is determined by responses to the effects of global marketplace forces that impact on changes to local communities. This article investigates the utility of robust hope as a means of analysing one Australian State Government's reforms to the senior phase of education and training; and as a way of conceptualising future teacher education possibilities. Recent research into Queensland's "education and training reforms" (ETRF) for the senior phase of learning (Years 10-12) identifies the positioning of schools as brokers of socio-economically aligned learning and earning for young people. These changes to young people's senior phase of learning present significant implications for capacity building of the teaching workforce.
ISSN:1359-866X
1469-2945
DOI:10.1080/13598660701447221