Ó Gallchóir, Ciarán and McGarr, Oliver (2022) An Irish perspective on initial teacher education: How teacher educators can respond to an awareness of the ‘absurd’. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 54 (7). pp. 983-991. ISSN 0013-1857

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Abstract

Internationally, initial teacher education has experienced shifts towards competence and school-based programmatic reforms. As a result, literature on the role of teacher educators operating within the academy suggests a sense of doom as market-based and political distrust of the academy grows. For now, initial teacher education in Ireland is largely housed within the academy. However, several governing policies have recently been published which subtly seek to marginalise the role and practices of teacher educators. Drawing on Camus’ understanding of the absurd as emerging from the interaction between the longing of human beings for clarity and the universe’s indifferent and silent reply, this paper sets out to investigate possible methods that teacher educators may select in responding to an awareness of the absurd.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Camus; absurd; teacher educator; initial teacher education;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Education
Item ID:	18323
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1901080
Depositing User:	Ciarán Ó Gallchóir
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2024 16:08
Journal or Publication Title:	Educational Philosophy and Theory
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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