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Teacher Education and the Scholarship of Teaching continue to be challenged and reshaped by multiple forces. Teaching, as used in pedagogical discourse, has been contested as not precise enough for everyone to agree on their application (Smith, 1987, p.14). Traditional teacher education programs that premised on philosophy, psychology and sociology have been questioned. The first direct challenge surfaced when OECD (2002, p.9) advanced “the theory of learning is pre-scientific – in the sense it lacks as yet either predictive or explanatory power.
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Alagumalai, S., Burley, S., Scott, M., Zweck, W. (2013). Implications for Teacher Education and Educators. In: Excellence in Scholarship. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-257-0_19
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