School Direct: a hastily constructed model or a systematically designed campaign?
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 55 Number 3 (2013)
School Direct: a hastily constructed model or a systematically designed campaign?
CLARE KELLY, MAGGIE PITFIELD pages 447-460
DOI: 10.2304/forum.2013.55.3.447
Abstract
This article examines School Direct, a model of initial teacher education (ITE) in England, recently introduced by the coalition government and based on a paradigm of teaching as a craft to be learned as an apprenticeship, significantly reducing and in some cases removing the influence of higher education. The history of the move away from university-based ITE to a school-led model is examined and situated within a wider neoliberal agenda. It is argued that School Direct as one manifestation of an ideologically-based strategy for education has serious abiding consequences for the future of the teaching profession and the stability of the educational infrastructure.
To cite this article
CLARE KELLY, MAGGIE PITFIELD (2013) School Direct: a hastily constructed model or a systematically designed campaign?, FORUM, 55(3), 447-460. https://doi.org/10.2304/forum.2013.55.3.447