BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Educating Teachers in Developing World Contexts: The imperative fo r radical reform - Bob Moon\, Emeritus Professor of Education: The Open Un iversity DTSTART:20130429T161500Z DTEND:20130429T173000Z UID:TALK44186@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:32547 DESCRIPTION:*ABSTRACT*\nThe school systems of all developing countries hav e expanded rapidly over the last decade. The quest to have every child in basic education by 2015 (A Millennium Development Goal) has galvanised gov ernments and international agencies to take action. However the parallel c hallenge to provide sufficient\, well educated\, teachers lags some way be hind. In many developing countries teacher supply\, retention\, education and training are verging on crisis. In this context Bob Moon will argue th at a radical reform of teacher education structures and systems will be ne cessary if the life chances of young people are to be improved. In particu lar he will suggest that the domination of European and North American ort hodoxies towards teacher preparation are fostering conservative resistance to change. In making this analysis he will suggest new strategies that ne ed to be embraced\, including a rethink of the research priorities current ly favoured by international agencies. He will also suggest ways in which the UK Higher Education sector could play a more significant role in respo nding to the challenge to make global education systems more equitable and just. The presentation will draw on work from the ten country Teacher Edu cation in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) programme that Bob Moon founded and d irected as well as his most recent book\, ‘Teacher Education and The Cha llenge of Development’\, which was published this year in the series Edu cation\, Poverty and International Development edited by Madeleine Arnot a nd Chris Colclough.\n\n\n*BRIEF BIOGRAPHY*\nBob Moon was a secondary teach er and headteacher of two urban British secondary comprehensive schools be fore moving into the higher education sector. He was appointed Professor o f Education at the Open University in 1988 with the task of developing all aspects of teacher education. His projects have twice won\, for the OU\, The Queen’s Anniversary Award for Higher Education\, most recently in 20 09 with The ten country ‘Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa’ (TES SA) programme\, an initiative now reaching half a million teachers in all parts of the continent. Bob Moon has been an adviser to many national gove rnments and international organisations\, (including OECD\, DFID\, EU\, UN ESCO\, UNICEF\, UNRWA and The World Bank) He has written extensively on cu rriculum teaching and international aspects of education. His most recent books include ‘The Power of Pedagogy’\, with the late Professor Jenny Leach and ‘Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development: A Global Analysis’. In 2012\, in recognition of his work in education\, he was ap pointed to The Academy of Social Sciences.\n\nhttp://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/ce ntres/cce/events/seminars.html\n LOCATION:Room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hi lls Road\, Cambridge END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR