The Rise and Fall of the MTL: An Example of European Policy Borrowing

Autor/inn/en	Chung, Jennifer; Atkin, Chris; Moore, Jane
Titel	The Rise and Fall of the MTL: An Example of European Policy Borrowing
Quelle	In: European Journal of Teacher Education, 35 (2012) 3, S.259-274 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0261-9768
DOI	10.1080/02619768.2011.633996
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Preservice Teacher Education; Adoption (Ideas); Technology Transfer; Teacher Education Programs; Comparative Education; Educational Improvement; Improvement Programs; Teacher Improvement; Teacher Education Curriculum; Inferences; Best Practices; Policy Analysis; Politics of Education; Change Strategies; Educational Change; Finland; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Ideas; Ideenfindung; Technologietransfer; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Effizienzsteigerung; Inference; Inferenz; Politikfeldanalyse; Educational policy; Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsreform; Finnland
Abstract	The success of Finland in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) highlights the quality of Finnish teacher education underpinning its consistently high performance in the survey. In 2010 the UK government initiated a masters in teaching and learning (MTL) in order to raise the education level of teachers, following Finland's teacher education model. Educationists both past and present, however, warn against "quick fix" political solutions and of the consequences of "uncritical policy transfer". For an educational policy to be effectively borrowed, it must travel through different stages. In this article we argue that the MTL has been implemented in the hope of quick solutions to long-term difficulties; we also maintain that the MTL has applied distinctly English factors into the Finnish model and was achieving informed policy transfer. Nevertheless, the rapid introduction and withdrawal of the programme has not allowed for the MTL to reach complete policy borrowing. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10