Does Our English Teacher Education Need
Re-Designing?
J. Bismoko
Change
has been regarded as inherent in any living organization for quite a long time,
for its own development and to keep up its external relevance as part of the development.
Individual or random responses to external sources for change, however, tend to
cause internal inconsistency and inefficiency. On this occasion a number of
current issues, potential to be sources for change, such as diversified
outcomes, the school-based management, and the competence-based curriculum will
be looked over in terms of its relevance to our English-teacher education.
There are obviously other sources of change, and they will keep coming in, but
when we feel they become too many, and they come too often, it is time to read
between the lines, to grab their underlying spirit. Perhaps the time is here
for us to get our English-teacher education re-oriented, and subsequently
re-designed.
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Bismoko, J. (2003). Does our English teacher education need
re-designing? TEFLIN Journal, 14(1), 58-69.
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