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.

摘要

在国际上，初级教师教育经历了向能力和以学校为基础的计划改革的转变。因此，关于学院内教师教育者角色的文献表明，随着对学院的市场和政治不信任的增长，人们感到一种厄运感。目前，爱尔兰的初级教师教育主要在学院内进行。然而，最近公布的几项管理政策巧妙地试图边缘化教师教育者的角色和实践。本文借鉴加缪对荒谬的理解，即人类对清晰的渴望与宇宙冷漠无声的回应之间的相互作用，本文着手研究教师教育者在回应荒谬意识时可能选择的方法.