Podcasts from HSRC: Teacher Shortages - Myth or Reality?
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 1 Aug, 2009As part of the public programme of events at the Cape Town Book Fair earlier this year, teachers and teacher education was discussed by a panel of HSRC researchers. The discussion was chaired by Prof Peter Kallaway.
HSRC has now made a package of the podcasts available.
* Michael Cosser examining Grade 12 student attitudes towards teaching as viable career and then student plans for entering the teaching profession after graduation. He is the author of Studying Ambitions : Pathways from Grade 12 and Ambitions revised: Grade 12 learner destinations one year on .
* Fabian Arends, co -author of Teacher Graduate Production in South Africa and Beginner Teachers in South Africa: School Readiness, Knowledge and Skills, looks at the limatations in the planning of continuing professional development and the challenges of identifiying the shortages of subject teachers accurately.
* Linda Chisholm looks at reopening teacher training colleges as an option of addressing the teacher shortage. She is the author of An Overview of Research, Policy and Practice in Teacher Supply and Demand, 1994 - 2008.
* Glenda Kruss discusses the restructuring processes that have taken place in a diverse range of teacher education providers and the ways these can and are shaping future conditions. She is the author of Teacher Education and Institutional Change in South Africa and Opportunities and Challenges for Teacher Education Curriculum in South Africa.