Developing Knowledge and Leadership in Pre-Service Teacher Education Systems

Jo-Anne Ferreira; Lisa Ryan; Julie Davis

doi:10.1017/aee.2015.24

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Developing Knowledge and Leadership in Pre-Service Teacher Education Systems

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Developing Knowledge and Leadership in Pre-Service Teacher Education Systems

Jo-Anne Ferreira, Lisa Ryan and Julie Davis

Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol.31(2), pp.194-207

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2015.24

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teacher education

system change

leadership

sustainability

Pre-service teacher education institutions are large and complex organizations, which are notoriously difficult to change. One factor is that many change efforts focus largely on individual pre-service teacher educators altering their practice. We report here on our experience using a model for effecting change, which views pre-service teacher education institutions and educators as a part of a much broader system. We identified numerous possibilities for, and constraints on, embedding change, but focus only on two in this paper: participants' knowledge of change strategies and their leadership capacities. As a result of our study findings and researcher reflections, we argue that being a leader in an academic area within pre-service teacher education does not equate to leadership knowledge or skills to initiate and enact systems-wide change. Furthermore, such leadership capacities must be explicitly developed if education for sustainability is to become embedded in pre-service teacher education.

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Title: Developing Knowledge and Leadership in Pre-Service Teacher Education Systems
Authors: Jo-Anne Ferreira (Author) - Griffith University
Lisa Ryan (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Julie Davis (Author) - Griffith University
Publication details: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Vol.31(2), pp.194-207
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date published: 2015
DOI: 10.1017/aee.2015.24
ISSN: 0814-0626
Copyright note: Copyright © 2015 The Authors. The accepted manuscript is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450207802621
Output Type: Journal article

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