PCERA 2001
Teacher Education/Educator Training:
Current Trends and Future Directions
CESC held
the third PCERA Symposium in conjunction with the Canadian Society for
the Study of Education (CSSE) and the Canadian Society for the Study of
Higher Education (CSSHE) at Laval University in Quebec City, May 22 and
23, 2001, during the annual Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities.
2001
Pan-Canadian Education Research Agenda Symposium - Teacher Education/Educator
Training: Current Trends and Future Directions – Symposium Report,
published
by CESC, provides a summary of the presentations, discussions, and commissioned
research papers from the 2001 PCERA Symposium.
Teacher
Education in a Knowledge-based Economy: Centering a critical conversation,
by Yvonne Hébert of the University of Calgary, identifies themes that
link the research papers and explores further research directions.
Fifteen research papers were commissioned from experts throughout Canada on topics related to teacher education and educator training. The research papers provided the basis of the symposium, and the presentations were organized into five sessions:
Session 1: Role of Teachers/Teacher Education
Role
of Educators/Educator Training
Pre-service
Teacher Training Programs: Outcomes of recent reforms andnew trends towards
effective professional training
Maurice Tardif - Université de Montréal; Diane Gérin-Lajoie, Stephen Anderson
- University of Toronto; Claude Lessard, Thierry Karsenti - Université
de Montréal; Clermont Gauthier - Université Laval; Donatille Mujawamariya
- Université d'Ottawa; Joséphine Mukamurera, Danielle Raymond, Yves Lenoir
- Université de Sherbrooke
Teacher
education in the networked classroom
Thérèse Laferrière - Université Laval; Robert Bracewell, Alain Breuleux
- McGill University; Gaalen Erickson - University of British Columbia;
Mary Lamon - University of Toronto; Ron Owson - York University
Transitions:
Becoming a College Teacher
Walter Froese, Claudine Lowry, George MacLean - Organizational Learning,
Nova Scotia Community College
Session 2: Teacher/Educator Supply and Demand
The
supply and demand of elementary-secondary educators in Canada
Ginette Gervais, Isabelle Thony - Statistics Canada
Projections
of Teaching Staff in Québec School Boards and Recruitment Requirements
Raymond Ouellette - Quebec Ministry of Education
Quebec's
1992 Teacher Training Program Reform: Assessing an attempt to regulate
the supply of newly qualified teachers and to improve access to the profession
Jean-Claude Bousquet, Renaud Martel - Ministère de l'Éducation du Québec
Teacher
and administrator shortages in changing times: Avoiding the dilemma of
saving the train from hijackers to find there's no train left!
Peter P. Grimmett - Simon Fraser University; Frank Echols - University
of British Columbia
Teacher
Supply and Demand: An Analysis of Current Developments in Newfoundland
and Labrador
David C. Dibbon - Memorial University of Newfoundland
Current and Future Labour Market Conditions
for Professors in Canada
Christian Dea - Human Resources Development Canada
Session 3: Teacher/Educator Professional Development
Preschool
Education Training: Skills for Adapting to a Changing Society
François Larose - Université de Sherbrooke; Bernard Terisse - Université
du Québec à Montréal; Thierry Karsenti, Johanne Bédard - Université de
Montréal
Fostering
Teachers' Lifelong Learning through Professional Growth Plans: A Cautious
Recommendation for Policy
Tara Jane Fenwick - University of Alberta
Session 4: Indicators of Success
Quality
Indicators for Teacher Training in Canada
Richard Alan Yackulic, Brian W. Noonan - University of Saskatchewan
Indicators
of Success in Teacher Education: A Review and Analysis of Recent Research
Tom Russell, Suzin McPherson - Queen's University
Session 5: Leadership
The
Evolving Role of Educational Administrators
Robert B. Macmillan, Ann Sherman, Matthew Meyer - St. Francis Xavier University
Postmodern Leadership and the Policy Lexicon: From Theory, Proxy to Practice
Trent Keough, Brian Tobin - College of the North Atlantic
The opinions expressed in the research papers are those of the authors
and do not represent the views of the Canadian Education Statistics Council.
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