Are Teachers Teaching for a Knowledge Society?

Autor/inn/en	Sahlberg, Pasi; Boce, Elona
Titel	Are Teachers Teaching for a Knowledge Society?
Quelle	In: Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 16 (2010) 1, S.31-48 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1354-0602
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Environment; Knowledge Management; Social Change; Classroom Environment; Secondary Education; Teacher Student Relationship; Interaction Process Analysis; Educational Change; Albania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Soziales Umfeld; Wissensmanagement; Sozialer Wandel; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Sekundarbereich; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Prozessanalyse; Bildungsreform; Albanien
Abstract	Many countries whose economies are in transition have initiated ambitious education reforms intended to modernize their education systems to better respond to the needs of new social and economic realities. Albania is a good example of a society that is emerging from a closed planned socialist system and moving fast to an open society and knowledge-based economy. As an essential tool in transforming people's knowledge and skills to promote a knowledge society, teaching must reflect, among other things, an active role for students and multilateral communication to support productive learning in classrooms. The aim of this study was to generate scientific evidence for policy-makers about whether teaching in the first grade of upper secondary schools meets these criteria. Based on our observation data from 303 classrooms in 34 schools in Albania, analyzed using the categories of Flanders' interaction analysis, we found that teacher talk occupies more than 70% of all lesson time and that student-initiated talk constituted less than 30 seconds within a typical 45-minute lesson. We conclude that unless education policies give a high priority to supporting teachers in transforming teaching in schools to promote productive, interactive learning, students will not be able to acquire the knowledge and skills they need within a modern knowledge society. (Contains 4 tables and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10