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This chapter focusses primarily on initial teacher education but begins with a brief discussion of in-service education. A brief history of initial teacher education is given, and issues concerning the recruitment and selection of students to teacher education are discussed. The next section of the chapter examines the curriculum of teacher education The following section discusses the processes of teacher education—what student teachers actually experience as well as what they are taught. This raises the question, does teacher education prepare students to work in a professional and democratic or authoritarian and unprofessional way? Positive case studies from a range of African countries are discussed in the light of this question as well as examples of contradictions between ‘do as I say’ and ‘do as I do’.

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Harber, C. (2017). Teacher Education. In: Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57382-3_5

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