The Global Challenge
We want, in this presentation, to focus on these teachers in these schools. We want to make three arguments:
First
- the worldwide challenge to educate all our children is a challenge for us all, not just a mission for those in the so-called developing world or the challenging urban areas of London or Paris or Los Angeles
Secondly it follows
- that if we want to educate all our children then we also need to educate their teachers
Thirdly - and importantly
- new forms of communication and new technological tools have tremendous potential to help us address the challenges we face.
We want to argue that it is necessary to formulate models and practices of teacher education that are conceptually strong, confident, and sensitive to the inevitable complexity, even contrariness, of local circumstances. Models that are also capable of establishing discourse across and between communities.
