Those who can, teach: the academic quality of preservice students in teacher education programmes in Taiwan

Difficulty in recruiting high-calibre individuals into teaching is a perennial issue in the field of teacher education. In some countries, students in teacher programmes are in general found to be lower in academic standing than their counterparts in other fields, which might lead to belief in the o...

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Published in:Asia-Pacific journal of teacher education 2016-01, Vol.44 (1), p.66-79
Main Authors: Wang, Hsiou-Huai, Huang, Chin-Chun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Ability
Academic Achievement
academic quality
College Entrance Examinations
College Students
Comparative Analysis
Educational policy
Foreign Countries
Grades (Scholastic)
Higher education
Intellectual Disciplines
Preservice Teacher Education
Preservice Teachers
Professional recruitment
Quality of education
Scores
Social influences
Sociocultural factors
Student Records
Student recruitment
Student teachers
Taiwan
Taiwanese people
Teacher Competencies
Teacher education
Teacher Education Programs
Teacher effectiveness
Teacher Improvement
Teaching methods
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Summary:Difficulty in recruiting high-calibre individuals into teaching is a perennial issue in the field of teacher education. In some countries, students in teacher programmes are in general found to be lower in academic standing than their counterparts in other fields, which might lead to belief in the old saying that "those who cannot, teach." In contrast to such discouraging phenomenon, based on analysis of a nationally representative data set, preservice students in Taiwan are found to be academically more outstanding than their nonteaching peers. Underlying policy and sociocultural contexts of such a positive phenomenon of "those who can, teach" are explained and implications for educators are discussed.
ISSN:1359-866X
1469-2945
DOI:10.1080/1359866X.2014.987722