THE ISSUE OF PEDAGOGICAL AND TEACHING TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN GREEK EDUCATION AND THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS: AN EDUCATIONAL POLICY APPROACH
DIMITRIOS CHATZIDIMOU, THEMISTOKLIS TSALKATIDIS
Abstract:
This paper critically discusses the everlasting but also extremely current, fundamental and of paramount significance issue concerning the training of secondary education teachers in pedagogy and didactics and focuses on the responsibility of the university professors who train the teachers at this school level. This topic is directly related to conducting the educational process. Consequently, the current education system of teachers at this school level is briefly presented which underlines their insufficient pedagogical and teaching training. Then, the several efforts that have been made to resolve the issue of teachers’ incompetence are outlined and analyzed, as well as the ascertainments and proposals that emerged from the attempts to resolve the issue are presented and discussed. Finally, the observations of the research study are discussed, and the corresponding conclusions are presented.
Keywords:
Pedagogical training, teaching training, educational process
DOI: 10.52950/TE.2023.11.1.001
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DIMITRIOS CHATZIDIMOU, THEMISTOKLIS TSALKATIDIS (2023). The issue of pedagogical and teaching training of teachers in Greek education and the role of university professors: an educational policy approach. International Journal of Teaching and Education, Vol. XI(1), pp. 1-17. , DOI: 10.52950/TE.2023.11.1.001
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Received: 29 Oct 2022
Revised: 21 Dec 2022
Accepted: 6 Feb 2023
Published: 20 Feb 2023
Copyright © 2023, Dimitrios Chatzidimou et al, dimch@edlit.auth.gr