







Pedagogy in Further Education and Vocational Teacher Education Evidence Definitions, background and scope Key pedagogical themes Examples from research Examples from research Strength of Evidence Transferability Editor's Comments |
General Pedagogical principlesMussett (2010: 1) argues there is no consensus in ‘the way pedagogy should be integrated in teacher education’. Korthagen et al. (2006) have led the production of perhaps the most authoritative and comprehensive statement of general pedagogical principles for teacher education. They undertook a meta-analysis of three ITE programmes across three countries, and ‘many studies’ undertaken and published on those programmes, and derived ‘Seven Fundamental Principles’ from this analysis. They are described as an 'empirically based and practically oriented' pedagogy based on 7 Key principles in 'programs and practices’ (ibid: 1022). They also assert that ‘in almost every teacher education program in the world, one or more of the seven principles can be recognized’ (ibid: 1037). These pedagogy based principles are:
Korthagen et al. (2006) argue these principles can help to create a common language for the development of pedagogy of teacher education, and Murray (2005) agrees that this could work in a number of ways, and also in the UK under certain circumstances. |