The newly developing four-year B.Ed. course of initial teacher education at Oxford Polytechnic is based on the development of a reflective teacher/tutor approach. School experience has been central to the development, because the approach requires that attention be paid to the perspectives of the three groups involved: teachers, tutors and students. The process of action research in which these perspectives were taken into account is described. The resulting simultaneous development of the model of reflective teaching/tutoring and of the course itself is explained and some conclusions drawn about the approach, the process of change, action research and teacher appraisal. Finally some questions that have arisen in the course of the inquiry are raised.
Discusses various definitions of quality and standards used within the college and university sector and highlights their advantages and disadvantages. Looks particularly at their implications for reflective practice. Argues that the various definitions of quality have implications for the ways in which professionalism is defined, and that some definitions may be inimical to the values encapsulated in the "reflective practitioner" model.
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