Towards Practice and the Risk of Vocational Training:A Study of Sino-American Teacher Education Model Reform
The teacher education models in both America and China are facing the crisis with the establishment of university-centered system in which the teacher education is getting far from down-to-earth practice.In America,the way towards practice is by means of the cooperation between colleges and pre-college schools,the middle/primary school- based model, and the pre-vocational and post-vocational integrative education.However,in China,the same goal is reached by inserting practical courses into teacher education curriculum in universities. But over-emphasis on practice might possibly lead to pure vocational training,impeding the progress of teacher professionalization.Therefore,the teacher education in the future is still supposed to consolidate its discipline knowledge,and pay much attention on practice and internship at the same time.